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A POT OF MANNA 



BY 



Mrs. Fannie Stienbrecher Erb. 

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PENTECOSTAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 



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CONTENTS. 



Deddcation 5 

Preface 6 

Manna for the Soul 7 

P^per Professions 12 

The Price of a Soul 14 

The Secret Place 18 

Rivers of Living Water 22 

Justification 26 

Sin or iCarnality 32 

Sanctification 35 

Consecration 41 

Submission 45 

A Dead People 48 

A Live People 54 

God's Little Lights 60 

Jesus 65 

Loyal Hearts 68 

Tame Holiness 70 

Why We Can't go With the World 76 

Spurious Religion 78 

Additions in Sanctification 82 

Pride 88 

Humility 91 

Grace 93 

Rest 97 

Patience 101 

Love 104 



An Ideal Home 107 

Change of Scenery 113 

Heaven 108 

Points on Justification and Sanctification ....125 

Motives 126 

Misunderstandings 131 

God's Factor^/ 134 

God's School 137 

Jim's Experience 151 

Joy 153 

Leadership of the Holy Ghost 155 

Temptation 160 

Testings 166 

Danger Signals 179 

Touchstones 186 

How we May Lose Sanctification 193 

My Bi'ble 197 



DEDICATION. 

To my brothers and sisters in the faith, scattered 
all over the world, is this little book lovingly dedi- 
cated. THE AUTHOR. 

June 30, 1910. 



PREFACE. 



I have no apologies to make for writing this book. 
The gospel story is so sweet, salmtion is so real and 
so essential to the uplift of suffering humanity^ the 
only thing that will save from an eternity of woe, 
that I feel (highly honored by my blessed Lord in be- 
ing nsed of Him in helping by voice 'and pen to pro- 
claim the unsearchable riches of Chris't, trying to for- 
tify my testimony by a h'oly life, ''void of offense to- 
ward Grod and man." To Him belongs aill the glory, 
for just as the hammer and saw are powerless, unless 
wielded hy the hand of the carpenter, just so 'are we 
unless inspired and 'led by the Holy iSpirit of G-od. 
So I send out this little book in the name of Him who 
died to redeem, us, and believe it Vv^ill 'accomplish the 
purpose for which He caused it to be written and 
sent forth. M'ay Oo'd bless every copy, and every 
reader, and make it a blessing wherever it goes, not 
to soothe and put to sleep carnal professors, but to 
awaken the lost, to lead on the believer, 'strengthen 
the saints, and comfort the tried. 

Youi^ in Him, 

Mrs. Fannie Stienbrecher Erb. 



CHAPTER I. 



Manna for the Soul. 

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both 
minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed 
sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. 
2 Cor. 9:10. 

Anything that feeds the isoul, deepens its love, 
strengthens its faith, fires its courage, increases its 
determina'tion to go through with Cod, invigorates, 
enlightens, strengthens, is manna to the soul, or soul 
pabulum, as dear Dr. Codbey puts it. 

We have all had more or less experience with the 
newspaper. When we first picked it up we thoug^ht 
we would read only the locals, but here and there 
were startling headlines in large, imposing letters, 
and we would read about 'a murder here, a wreck 
there, a 'bankrupt here, a theft there, un- 
til we could just feel the soul shrivel up, 
and if we took warning in time we threw the paper 
down in disgust, with a very prominent empty feel- 
ing in the isoul. A leakage had sprung 'somewhere, 
and faith was weakened, love was soured, determin- 
ation wilted, and we wished we had never seen a 
newspaper. 

Then there are magazines without number, which 
give valuable inform^ation on business, p'oliti<3S, dre.^> 

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making, etc., but the soul looking out with hungry 
eyes sees nothing to feed upon, nothing that would 
strengthen its faith in Grod, nothing to make it love 
G-od more, nothing to inspire its hope of heaven. 

Shall I mention the novels that pave the way to 
hell? Or t'he hundreds of cheap fireside papers that 
reek poison from the pit? That are filling our jails 
and penitentiaries with bo3^s, some scarcely in their 
teens? Surely the devil is busy. He wants to so 
stultify and stupify the soul hy reading this 
awful trash, that when the Holy Spirit does 
wish to arouse it from its lethargy, and 
sermon after sermon falls as red-hot coals 
upon its dull ears, it cannot hear nor compre- 
hend, nor grasp the realit}^ of a Savior, a hell or a 
heaven. It has dealt so long in fiction, in things 
unreal, and of human creation that it fails to grasp 
there is 'anything real or of divine creation. Thank 
God, He can break throngh even this kind of a spell 
and -unbind the soul and set it free if it gets in eara- 
eist and casts itself unreservedly on His mercy. But 
how few ever get this far ; how nmny try a little, then 
give up in despair and make their bed in hell. 

Now if this is all, we might congratulate ourselves 
that it is no worse ; but alas, the devil never sleeps, 
and uses every channel he can to destroy souls and 
populate hell, and if he can get those who profess 
a high state of grace to propagate a wrong doc- 
trine, he is more than pleased, for he knows tlie harm 
done the cause of Christ is Uvot to be measured. Me- 



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thinks hell will be hotter and more imenldwable to 
the soul that thought it \ms right, would spend eter- 
nity in heaven, than for any other soul, when it wakes 
up to find tha^t hell will be its portion forever and 
forever! No chance to retr^aee steps; no altar at 
which to find pardon ; no God to answer prayer ; no 
relief; not a ray of light forever and forever! Oh 
the awful thought! How we ought to search the 
Scriptures, and see for ourseflves whether or not we 
are on the narrow way that leads to endless delight. 
Jesus said (John 7 :17), *'If any man will do his will, 
he shall know of the doctrine. ' ' So if we are sincere 
and honest, and study Grod's word with an eye sin- 
gle to His glory and our own salvation, we shall 
know of the true doctrine. 

Any company of people propagating doctrine con- 
trary to Scripture, is to 'be rebuked, shunned, and 
exposed; and esi>ecially the papers published as an 
organ of these people, and used to scatter broadcast, 
as a sower does his seed, heresy and wrong doctrine. 

Eiissell, with his many hunldredis of followers and 
literature that is almost given away, is doing untold 
damage. If the devil can get anyone to believe there 
is another chance of salvation after this life, or that 
there is no hell, he has that soul almost as sure a<s 
though he were already in hell. 

The Seventh Day Adventis'ts follow a close second. 
A hell of a three days' duration is all they can find 
in the Bible. Their literature is scattered every- 
where; some of it meat, but a lot of it poison. 



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Thon there is the Mormon faith, faithfully sc^atter- 
ed by word and pen, until thousands are caught in 
this mals'trom of heresy and evil doctrine. 

With this arra}^ before us, and many more we 
could mention, as Christian Science, etc., is it any 
wonder our hearts cry out, ''How long, oh G-od, how 
long?" That our eyes overflow with tears, and we 
feel like a chip on the broad bosom -of the river, una- 
ble to check the awful current, surging down through 
time, and emptying into the hearts of millions of 
readers, w'ho will go to hell deceived and blinded by 
the food they fed their souls ! 

Thank God through all this mass of darkness, de- 
ception laud death comes a, ray of truth and life. 
God's word is printed in more different languages, 
has a wider circulation, is more studied and read 
than ever before. The sm'all army of holiness writ- 
ers is increasing ; a goodly number of holiness papers 
enter thousands of homes, and thus the truth is 
spread. 

But we are far too spare with our holiness litera- 
ture. While we sit and sleep, the devil multiplies 
his efforts, and to our one holiness bo-ok offered to 
some poor soul, his agents have been handing out 
hundreds of death-dealing weapons. God help us 
to wake up, shake off our indifference, arise to our 
opportunity and scatter broadcast holiness literature 
every w^nere. Many a soul has 'been led into the light 
reading "Victory," by Godbey, "The Double Cure," 
■by Knapp, etc., ^and these only ten cents a eopy! 



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Oould we multiply our usefnlness 'any cheaper and 
to more ad vantage till an to 'get five dollars worth of 
these books and then give or lend or sell as the Ix)rd 
leads? God help ns to work while it is day for the 
night Cometh when no man can woi-jfe. 



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CHAPTER II. 
Paper Flower Professions. 

There are so many people these days that have a 
paper flower profession. 

Look at that beautiful plant in the window ! How 
it stretches every stem toward the light ! How the 
leaves seek the sunshine, and turn full face toward 
the isun! Just so with the fully justified ! They are 
seekimg light. Not a single holiness fighter among 
them! They don't say, ''I got it ail in conversion," 
or "I expect to grow into it," but they search the 
word of God which is a light unto their path ; they 
look to the Son of righteousness for guidance, and 
as He sheds His rays on privilege and duty they 
gkadly obey. 

Not so with paper flowers. Light and sunsiliine 
would fade them. They must be kept under glass 
in a darkened corner. They do not expect to grow, 
neither do th'ey expect it to be a blessing; simply 
exiist, that is all, and fading as time goes on. Just 
so with people who have a profession but no pos- 
session. They do not care for more light; it would 
reveal the barrenness and emptiness of their souls. 
They fig'ht holiness because they woidd have to re- 
pent land get rid of their sims before they could ob- 
tain ^anytliing like the baptism of the Holy Ohost, and 
th'a-t would be too humiliating. So they take comfort 



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m shrinking away in some dark corner, calling the 
iho'lmess people cranks and old fogies, and are con- 
tent to live on and on, never anything more than a 
tissue paper flower, some day to be thrown into the 
stove or into the street. 

Then we can njote a great difference between the 
real plant and tlie paper plant in la rain. How eager- 
ly the real plant will drink in the rain, how fresh it 
looks, and how it Avill grow after a good bath in the 
rain I But now rest your eyes on the paper plant. 
There is nothing left of it that would tell of its for- 
mer grace and beauty; it could not stand the wind 
of adversity, or the rain of persecution. Not so with 
the true saint. The s'howers are just as welcome as 
the sunshine, because afterwards tliey yield the 
peaceable fruits of righteouisness, and cause the fruits 
of the Spirit to grow abundantly. Let us be sure we 
have an experience that is real, a known salvation ; 
something that grows, something that reaches out af- 
ter the wliole will of Ood, nothing a^rtiticial, or make 
believe, nothing tacked O'U, but really born from 
ajbove, and afterward baptized with the Holy Oliost. 



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CHAPTER III. 
The Price of a Soul. 
For ye are bought with a price. I Cot. 6 :20. 

"We have often heard the expression that ' ' Salva- 
tion is free." Then again we consider the price 
paid upon Calvary, although a great priee, a loving 
offering for the lost souls of this world, a grand 
atonement for the sins of men ; all that has been paid 
or was necessary to pay. 

Now this was a great price. We will never know 
just how much it cost Grod to give His only begotton 
Son to die the ignominious death of the cross until 
we reach the other shore. We will never know here 
just what God suffered every time a tear trickled 
down the face of His well beloved; how dt pierced 
His heart every time a thorn pierced the fair brow 
of the Lord and King of Kings ; how all heaven wait- 
ed breathlessly^ in suspense as the Mighty Monarch of 
the skies fought and won the battle in the ivilderness, 
in Gethsamane, on the cross, over the grave; or how 
the angels loved to minister to Him as weary, hun- 
gry and rejected of men, He had nowhere to lay 
His head, spent whole nig^hts on the mountain side, 
and received without complaint the taunts and 
sneers of the Yery folios He was there to bless and 
die for. 



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Oh, yes! The price was so great, (the chasm to 
bridge over was so deep that none but the Son of 
God Himself could have ever paid it. Yet methink's 
as God put Abraham (faithful, true hearted, right- 
eous Abraham) to the test of offering up the only- 
son of his bosom, He would not allow sl human fa- 
ther to manifest more depth of consecration than He, 
the Almighty God. If Abraham had failed, and per- 
mitted his love for his child to. come between liim 
and God we might never have had a Deliverer, but 
because he was willing to offer up his only son, and 
Isaac was willing to be offered, it touched the great 
heart of God, and He said, "I too will give up my 
only begotton, to die for that lost world, for man 
must not exceed Me, in saerifice, mercy, and love." 
Ah yes, Abraham proved to God that there was some- 
thing in the human heart worth paying the awful 
price for. It was something that loved God of its 
own free will to such an extent that nothing could 
separate it from God, no, not principalities, powers, 
deatli nor life, famine nor sword. 

But lis this all that is paid for a soul? Many a 
man and woman if they eould see the workings of 
Gold, would realize that God is paying out continue 
'ally a whole stream of money, love, sacrifice, mercy 
and patience to win their souls. Here is a man who 
is not saved. He is worth a good deal of money ,* 
has a fine fann, a happy family, and everything 
seems prosperous. God has been calling him to re- 
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a deaf ear to all His pleadings. God lias sent iMm 
-the snnshine 'and showers to make his big crops, has 
poured money into his coffers, but he fails to recog- 
nize Ood in it all, s-o God takes another course and 
speaks lou'der. He permits sickness to enter the 
home, and it lays its withering hand upon the queen 
of the household. Doctors are ealled, money is 
spent, but death claims its victim, and the price of 
his wife is added to the price of his soul ; but this 
time he has to pay. It is eosting him dear, but still 
he refuses to listen and God musjt call louder stni, 
•aaid demand still another price. His crops begin to 
fail, adversity eomes, his only daughter who was to 
be his standby as a housekeeper is snatched from his 
side and laid beside her mother in the cold, dark 
ground. The bids for his soul are going higher and 
higher. After he has paid the price of wife, daug^h- 
ter, thousands of dollars in failing crops, loss of 
horses, and perhaps health, then he ^begins to come 
to himself. Then perhaps God has arranged all these 
eircumstances to bring about the necessary change 
in his heart, will and desires. He causes him to move 
into a holiness eommunity, or sends a holiness family 
to locate right near him, or opens up a meeting with- 
in his reach, and little by little opens his eyes to his 
lost condition, makes him hungry for salvation, and 
as he thinks he has nothing to live for mueh anyway, 
he 'goes to God, hankrupt in worldly treasures, poor 
and needy, and yields himself to God for salvation. 
He mig^it have had salvation at a smaller margin; 



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rnig-ht ihave said ''yes" to Ood before all these dis> 
asters came upon him, but Ood saw it was necessary 
to break his stubborn will, saw il; was necessary to 
make his heart bleed, to knock every prop from un- 
der him before he would see his helpless, lost con- 
dition and fly to him for refuge. It took years of 
patient shaping of affairs. Many people, many 
words, many tears, many dollars and many heart- 
aches had to be sacrificed before that soul was awak- 
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CHAPTEE IV. 

The Secret Place. 

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most 
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

Psa. 91:1. 

People do not ihide away old 'tin cans, wornout 
sh'oes, etc., in a secret place wliere only valuable 
things 'are supposed to be kept. Neither does God 
hide away people in His secret place that are all pol- 
luted with sin. Even the justified who still have the 
root of sin in their hearts are not hid in this secret 
place. But Ood wants to hide them there, and as 
soon as they die out to the v\rorld and present their 
bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, 
He burns out the last remains of sin in their hearts 
by the baptism of the Holj^ Gh'ost and fire, and lo ! 
they find themselves dwellers in this wonderful se- 
cret place of God. 

Now we sometimes try very hard to find a place 
to hide our money in, that will baffle all the former 
experience any burglar may have had in finding 
things, and sometimes Ave congratulate ourselves in 
fi.nding just such a place, but many times the bur- 
glar proves himself a genius in finding hidden val- 
uables, and our secret place is secret no longer. 

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makes a iiiding place, it is surely a secret place, 'and 
when ihe hides any one, he is hidden indeed. 

God 'has a burglar to contend with that is a, ithous- 
and times more than a match to any burglar we have 
ever heard of; no maitter how much he has gained 
by robbery, and no matter how often 'he hias escaped 
detection. His name is the Devil, but thank God if 
the devil is mighty, God is all mighty, and so when 
God 'hides us in His secret pla-ee, the devil can't find 
us. Bless God forever! 

Then it is not only the devil we are hidden from, but 
we are hidden from the taunts and sneers 'of men. Did 
you ever wonder why that 'certain women you knew 
about, with that unsaved 'husband who cursed and 
swore at 'her, never answered back a cross word, but 
always remained unruffled and sweet in 'her soul? 
Why the secret was she was hidden away, and the 
curses of her husband never reached her. True she 
heard ^the wicked words that fell from 'his lips 'and 
'her soul was grieved and burdened f or (his salvation, 
■but the effect he wished to make upon her was all in 
vain ; he could not penetrate that secret place. 

Sorrow, trouble and ddsapp'ointment never enter 
this secret place. True they roll up m'Ountain high 
against the soul ; they flap t!heir black wings in your 
face and make a mournful sound, but fail to touch 
the spring that reveals the hidden soul. In there 
is joy at God's right ihand, and pleasures forever 
more. No hankering after the empty pleasures of 
the world; they fade entirely from the vision of the 



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dweller in the secret place ; no worry and sinf id hur- 
ry in this place, but the machinery is all run by a 
^Master hand, and the oil of 'the Holy Ghost keeps 
everything running smoothly, without friction, or 
unnecessary wear and tear. 

It is never dark in this secret place. Jesus is the 
light and life thereof. 

Scripture that is so dark to other folks is perfectly 
clear to these people. When other folks think Jesus 
wdll not come for many hundreds of years yet, they 
are looking for Ilim close at hand. 

Neither is there any danger of starving in this se- 
cret place. Grapes, pomegranates, honey out of the 
rock, the finest of the wheat, old corn and w^ini 
abound in abundance. Father's house is full, and 
they eat of the fat of the land. Their meat and drink 
is to do the will of their Father in heaven. 

There is no fear of danger in this secret place. 
Like the sleeping babe that was picked up by a cy- 
clone and carried many hundreds of yards in the ccd- 
ter 'of the storm, and then iaid down in the middle of 
•an 'Orchard so gently that it did not even waken, so is 
the soul hid away in thh secret place. 

Many dangers to both bodj^ and soul are constant- 
ly surrounding them but none are permitted to come 
near without the Father's notice. We will never 
know the value of God's protecting arm around us. 
until Vv^e reach the 'other side, then we will know as 
we are known. Plow many times we have just es- 
caped traps laid for our feet, and pitfalls dug for our 



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destruction throngli tiie watchful care of Him who 
loved us so. 

Then there is plenty of room in this secret place. 
No one need fear of 'being crowded out ; tliere is room 
and to spare, especially in the line of service. If 
one has won a thousand souls for Jesus, another can 
win two thousand without stepping on the toes of 
#ie other a bit. If one has two appointments to 
preach, the other one may have four if he so desires. 
There's room to the going down of the sun, and every 
foot of ground you tread upon is yours for an inher- 
itance forever ! 

Many people tr^^ to find this secret pTace 'by doing 
church work, going to the foreign field, etc., but it is 
only found in one way, and that is (laying everything 
on the altar and trusting in the blood to cleanse from 
all sin. 

In the secret of His presence, 

When you've entered at the door, 

There secure you'll rest in Jesus, 
There are joys forever more. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Eivers of Living Water. 

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, 
out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water. 

But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that 
believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost 
was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet 
glorified. John 7 :38, 39. 

The first river i's the river of praise. Its source is 
the sanctified heart, and it empties into the ear of 
Crod. On account of the upw^ard channel, it cannot 
flow when there is the least spiritual depression. Per- 
secution, sorrow^ and trouble onl}' make it flow fas- 
ter, providing these lare received as stepping stones 
to higher ground. Sometimes, when the Lord espe- 
eially hlesses, it overflows its banks. The closer we 
live to Ood, the deeper and swifter the current! 
Bless Hiis name forever! Taking praise and glory 
to ourselves soon stops up the river and it ceases to 
flow as 'of yore, and after awhile dries up altogetlier. 
God help us to keep the channel open that day and 
night la real river of praise and thanksgiving may 
flow out of our hearts to Ood Who giveth us richly 
a:ll things to enjoy. 

The next river is a river ^of love, a mig'lity torrent 
that inundates everything around it. It flows in the 



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same channel that 'hate used to fiow, and as tiie years 
roll on the channel gets deeper and wider. Glory to 
G-od! The main stream runs stmight to ithe heart 
of G'od and empties at His feet, for they love hdm 
■with all their hearts, mind and strength. Then there 
is a large tributary running to the word of God, an- 
other to the prayer meeting, an'Other to the secret 
closet, another to the pocketbook, and then eoumtless 
little tributaries fi'owing to tlie sick, heathen, mis- 
sionaries, unsaved, etc., and even reaching their ene- 
mies. So this river covers -m'ore ground than any 
other, refreshing the arid waste wherever it goes. 

Next cornes 'a river of j^oy. This river the devil 
hates above all the rest. It seems to mock him as it 
goes singing on its way, and all hds attempts to clog 
it up fail to stop its 'onvv-ard coarse, pro- 
viiing the channel is kept free from debris 
like discouragement, blue days, dark hours, 
etc. Sometimes the devil will pile up a great 
wall of rocks of trials, persecutions, etc., and plaster 
it good with discouragemxent, but just about the time 
he thinks his job will certainly liold this time, the 
river gets re-enfon-ed by a freshet from above, 'and 
with a mighty sv/eep W'ashes everything before it. 
swedling its banks and splashing joy wlierever it 
goes. 

Then coiues the river of peace. This river is 
mighty and deep, flowing as quietly and serenely as 
thougli a storm never stirred its peacefid ;^osoni. 
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bottom, wliere the bright yellow sand glistens in the 
•sunlight. Sometimes the devdl takes a stick and tries 
to stir np the bottom with testing and trial, but fail- 
ing to find the least bit of mud, the w^aters remain 
just as clear and placid as ^before. Sometimes he 
will cause a wind to blow called hurry and w^orry, 
but from its onward flow you would not know any- 
thing unusual was the matter. 

The river of faith eomes next. This river flows 
over a ver^^ rough, rock'bed, through a channel w^ith 
ragged, craggy edges, and the waters flow with a 
s\vish and a wash that wash these rough rocks 
smooth, ISO the swifter it flows, the smoother aiid 
easier the way becomes. It is a very clear stream, 
nothing misty or muddy about it. It empties into 
eternity, and to stop its course vrould mean eternal 
damnation. 

N'OVv" we come to the river of love for souls. Out 
of some hearts this river is exceedingly narrov^ and 
shallow, only reaching their own loved ones and a 
few friends and neighbors, but out of the sanctified 
heart it reaches every unsaved sonl. vrh ether white 
or black, rich or poor, lovely or unlovely. Glory to 
God ! 

The7-! there is a river of love for the brethren, 
which reaches every saint, whether ]Methodist, Bap- 
tist. Quaker, or other name. The baptism of the 
Holy Ghost and fire having 'burned up all sectarian 
line^^. leaving us free to love everybody, especiallv 
the hniiseliold of faith. 



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One very necessary river is the river of determina- 
ftion. How many start in the race for eternal life 
•and lacking determination they let any little obstacle 
clog up their course, and go back into the world. 
God help lis to go through no matter who rises or 
faMs, no matter what comes or goes. Now one could 
go on and enumerate numbers of rivers and fail per- 
haps in mentioning all of them. There is long-suf- 
fering, prayer, etc. May each channel he clear cut 
and wide, that each river may increase in volume, 
causing the country through Which it flovvS to blos- 
som and blootni with life and freshness, blessing ev- 
ery one that comes in contact with their living wa- 
ters. 



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CHAPTEii Vi. 

Justification. 

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace 
with God through our Lord J esus Christ. Eoni. 5 :1. 

So many people eannot distinguish betvreeii jnsti- 
fieati'On as a work vrror.glit in tlie heart by God, and 
j^u^4tifieation as an experience laboriously lived by 
m&R and women, .and when we iinderyalue justiliea- 
tion 'as an -experience, they seem to tlnnlv vre under- 
value justification as fi work wi'ought ;)t God. which 
is by no means -t^he case. To resnrrect a sinner dead 
in trespasses and sii^s to eternal life a work be- 
yond 'Our comprehension, a work marvelous in the 
extreme, a work that God alone ean do. and is to be 
hig'hly honored, greatly appreciated, and continually 
'held before the people as an absolute necessity to 
their spiritual welfare and adnd'ttanee into lu'aveu, 
'but God never intended nor expected a soul to stop 
at this station, and this is where the gre^at mistake is 
made. 

I have heard preachers say tliat a justified nran or 
woman can live without sin (three hundred and sixty- 
five days in a year, but God does not intend they 
should try it. When God calls a sinner he calls him 
to holiness, 1 Thess. 4 :7. True, justification is in 
tlie way and must first be ol^tained just 'as a pei'son 



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must obtain a ticket to enter any place, where admis- 
sion is charged, or just as a foundation must first be 
'laid before tiie building is erected, but this is not ex- 
pected to be the stopping point. He is now once 
more just exactly where he was before he commiitted 
his first sin as a little innocent child, but pride, envy, 
jealousy, seilfishness, hatred and 'all 'these things are 
still in his heart, just as they are in the heart of every 
babe that is born. God eould not permit the tiniest 
b'aby that ever died to enter heaven just as it is. If 
He did, when it got there, it would want Gabriel to 
carry it about all the time, would cry for the brig'ht 
glistening crowns, and turn lall heaven upside down 
with its yells. So the smallest baby ^before it can 
enter heaven must be sanctified. This selfish prin- 
ciple, this sinful tendency in its nature, must be tak- 
en ou't before it can pass through the pearly gates, 
land so just as the little spirit leaves the body it pass- 
es under the blood of Christ (iblessed 'blood-bought 
privilege), is cleansed and is made meet to spend 
eternity with a holy God, in a 'holy heaven, with holy 
angels. 

Just so with the justified. While they have power 
for la sfhort time to keep these things down, yet they 
are there, and sooner or later will manifest them- 
selves. There is a reason for this. If we would nev- 
er allow our children to get down on the floor, they 
would never walk. If we would always feed them, 
and wait on them, they would alv/ays remain help- 
less and dwarfed. Just so with God's babies, the 



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justified. Wlien lie sees fit He allows such trials and 
temptajtions to enter the justified life, th-at will show 
theon their weak places, reveal to them their carnal 
hearts, and make them yearn for defliverance. He 
permits His child to fall, in order to s^how him his 
need of a clean heart. That time you pinched your 
finger, flew off the handle, slammed the innocent 
door, and said those sharp impatient words you had 
not used since you were saved two weeks ago, was 
simply a test permitted God, to let you see that 
anger was still in the heart, and under provocation 
would manifest itself. You Vv^ere ashamed and mor- 
tified the next second, asked Grod ^vith tears to for- 
give you, and never let you do that again, but fie 
could only answer the first ha'lf of your prayer. He 
freely forgave you, but He could not make a machine 
out of you, so the very next day He permitted some 
thing else to cross your path, and up the angei 
fltarred, like a flame suddenly fed with oil, and you 
became almost discouraged and wondered if this was 
the way all Christians pursued their way to the Ce- 
lestial City. But thank God a holiness evangelist 
came to your neighborhood. He preached holiness, 
proving out of God's word that this ver}^ thing that 
caused you so much trouble could be removed, and 
you were tlie first at the altar. Glory to God, vrhen 
all was on the altar (Christ) He sanctified you whol- 
ly and you never had any more trouble with carnal- 
ity as long as you o'beyed God and vralked in the 
light. But if God had not permitted these tests and 



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failures bo come into your life you would never have 
felt 'the need of ano'ther work of grace in your 'heart, 
and you would ^still 'be a baby in Christ, doing no sin 
particularly, but also doing no good, not as useful as 
a comm'on chair or table. 

The preacher that says we can stay sinless in a 
justified state as long as we like, holds out to the peo- 
ple a standard that is fa;lse, for Ood does not intend 
that we should settle down in a justified state and 
has not made provision for it. The children of Israe'' 
Vv-ere not called out of Egypt to the wilderness (jus« 
tificaticn) but Vv^ere called to Canaan (sanctification.) 
Nmv the question is, "How soon does God expect 
to sanctify a soul?" The 'answer is, "As soon as 
that soul has light on sanctification." Mnay people 
who never heard a holiness sermon, and never knew 
anything labont sanctification, wheiu the}^ died, they 
passed under the blood as a little child and were 
sanctified on their death 'beds, but those who have 
heard and received the light, if they reject it, they 
will 'backslide and lose their justification. We can 
only retain our justification as we obey Cod's will, 
"For this is the will of Cod, even your sanctifica- 
tion." 1 Thess. 4:3. But let us look farther into 
the W'OTil of Cod. God calls the sinner's heart, a 
heart of stone, and promises if he repents to give him 
a lieart of fiesh. Now the justified have n heart of 
flesh, ])ut as yet it is uncircumciised. Col. 2 :11 ; Acts 
7 :51. In the old dispensation a child was circum- 
cised the eig"hth day, so we may conclude r cliiJd of 



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God may be circumcised in iheart the eighth day, or 
the sooner the better. 

According to some writers, Israel would have - 
crossed over into the Canaan land three days after 
she left Egypt had she obeyeid God. We find Oor- 
neldu's sanctified in the first holiness meeting he was 
ever in, so it proves beyond a doubt that the sooner 
we go on to perfection, the better it pleases God. If 
God had intended that we should tarry in the justi- 
fid experience He would have made provision for a 
life above sin, but He has not made any such pro- 
vision; it is impossible to live above sin three hun- 
dred and sixty-five days in the year, because sin held 
'down is sin just the same in God's sight. Suppress- 
ed 'anger is sin, and hatred is murder even if con- 
cea/led in the heart out of sight of men. (1 John 3: 
15). If carnality is not subject to the law of God 
(Romans 8:7), it surely wnll not subject itself to 
our laws, but will break out 'again and again. 

Of course it is possible every time one sins to re- 
pent, and God forgives, but very soon one gets care- 
less about being sure of God's forgiveness, and with 
la formal prayer without any depth or real repent- 
ance, yAU ask God to forgive their many transgres- 
sions, expecting to go right on doing the same thing 
over again. There are a 'lot of spiritual dwarfs in 
the church that are struggling to keep the spark of 
eternal life from going completely out. whose best 
testimony is, ''I do many things I slvould not do. and 
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Ood help m to go on to perfection, to t>aiTy at Je- 
rusalem until we are baptized witli the Holy Gho^t 
laiid fire, whicsh burns out the last remains of siu, 
;ma'king us indeed dead unto sin, and alive unto God. 



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CHAPTEK VII. 
Sin or Carnality. 
To be carnally minded is death. Rom. 8 :6. 

Sin loves darkness. Sin is decepfcive. Sin is un- 
clerilianded. Sin is flouris'hing. Sin ibates G-od. Sin 
ihates de'tection. Sin blighte. Sin destroys confi- 
dence, fiaifch. and love. Sin can never -enter heaven. 
The justified will have to be sanctified, somewhere 
between their justification and their entrance into 
heaven if they ever get there. Some folks think the 
suppression theory will take them to heaven. They 
think it is all right to want to strike a man, as long 
as they do not do it. They think you -can be angry, 
as long as yon let it boil, all it wants to out of 
sight, but must not let any steam escape. 

Their theory falls when we look at Grod's word and 
consider His idea of true salvation. In John 3 :15 
we read, Whosoever hateth his brother is a mur- 
derer." That is pretty strong is it not? Do not 
have to commit the awful deed by shedding blood, do 
not even have to let the outsdde world know about it ; 
it need only be that silent, unobserved, hellish hate, 
and G'od says such 'a one is a murderer. 

Then we can admire our neigfhbor's house all we 
please, 'but as soon as that admiration turns to cov- 
etousness, we have broken one of the ten command- 



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nients. We do not need -to let a single soul know 
about it, ^but G-od'^s all-'seeing eye sees, and we are 
sinners in His sig'ht, and Grod's judgment stands, no 
matter w-hat other folks say. 

Pride is one of the things that Ood bnands abom- 
inable in His sight. Yet how often we see people 
try to coA^er up pride by a poke bonnet and a plain 
garb. Then their doctrine falls when we realize that 
suppression is utterly impossible. G'od says carnal- 
ity is not subject to His law (Rom. 8:7), how in the 
world {s'SLii we harness it, and make it conform to our 
laws? Weak creatures t'hat we are, Avhat G-od cannot 
do, surely we would be foolish to attempt. Oarnal- 
ity is like a pillowcase full of water, as soon as you 
suppress the water in one end, it bulges out in the 
other end. 

Pride may be suppressed in one's wearing apparel 
but it is sure to crop out in one's conversation, in 
one's actions, etc. I knew a good wom^an once that 
said she eould live like a queen if she wished, but 
she did not believe Ood wanted us to be extravagant. 
Her walls had not a single picture hung upon them. 
There w^as only one broken rocker in the house, her 
home looked like a prison in its empty plainness (and 
^he used to w^onder why her children did not like 
•home.) This family was worth about twenty 
thousand dollars. They were proud of their pos- 
sessions, tine farms and nice fat horses and cattle. 
If they had given that extra money to Go'd, how ma- 
ny souls might have been won through that money 



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for Him ! But as long as tliey spent it in their o>Yn 
interest, they mig^ht just as well have beautified their 
home and enjoyed the benefit of their money, but the 
devil made them believe they were very humble, 
pious Christians because they sacrificed home com- 
forts, tand made them believe they were doing it for 
Jesus' sake, when they were using that very money 
to buy more 'land, build larger barns, and fatten 
more cattle, Grod was not getting the benefit of their 
sacrifice, but while it was suppressed on one side it 
bulged out on the other. 

Carnality is stronger and wiser than we are. It 
has aptly been called by some one, ''The child of the 
devil," and is nearly six thousand yenrs old. He 
only laughs when he hears one talk about suppress- 
ion, or outwitting him, for he knows under that 
Mind, his life will be spared. But crucifixion is the 
only remedy for him. Sentence has been passed up- 
on him, and he must die. Let him plead for his life 
in all tenderness, and promise absolute obedience, 
and desire only a corner in the remotest part of the 
soul; do not give him any quarters whatever, but 
'hand him determinedly and resolutely to the divine 
Executioner and do not be satisfied until you know 
he is so dead that he -will not kick any more. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 
Sanctification. 

For this is the will of Crod, even your sanctification. 

Th^s. 4:3. 

A man who has ibeen working all day in a coal 
mine kno^vs from past experience that as soon as he 
gazes «it himself in a looking-glass, a very black, 
grimy face will greet his vision. A man visiting the 
miine will not realize the condition of his toilet until 
looking at himself in a mirror, he will be surprised 
at the accumulation of foreign matter on his coun- 
tenance. 

Just so with the human family. The drunkard, 
the thief, and vagabond have so besmeared them- 
selves with sin that they know very well hell will 
be their portion unless they repent. But l^e moral 
man does not know how unclean he is until Grod holds 
the looking-glass of conviction before the vision of 
his soul, then seeing himself for the first time as God 
sees him, he is alarmed and mortified, and flies to 
the Blood for cleansing ifrom his sins. Just so God 
must show us our sins, and after they are washed 
away must give us a second look into that won- 
derful looking-glass, and the photograph that once 
more appears 'before the soul's wondering gaze is a 
pieture horrid to contemplate. 



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Many people when you speak to them of inbred 
sin, or the carnal mind as the Scripture puts it, will 
say they have none, or it must be kept down, or it 
was done away with in conversion; but when Gad 
sends them conviction for inbred sin, they find it a 
black, hellish, slimy, holiness hating, sin-loving, dev- 
ilish nature within. The warp and woof of their 
souls, that certainly is there, was not removed in 
conversion, and cannot be held do^,vn, so as soon as 
they see the soul's face so dirty they again fly to the 
Blood (blessed privilege!) and lo ! the soul is clean. 
Bless Grod forever! 

Now let us see if God's word bears out in our as- 
sertions. In the second verse of the fifteenth chap- 
ter of John's Gospel we read these words: ''Every 
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may 
bring forth more fruit." We know that sinners do 
not abide in the vine, and hence cannot bear fruit, 
but here Jesus speaks of fruit bearing branches need- 
ing purging (or eleansing) whicih we must acknowl- 
edge are in the vine, hence Gad's believing children. 

Then aigain in Acts 15:8-9, we read, "Giving them 
the Holy Ghost, even 'as he did unto us ; and put no 
difference between us 'and them, purifying their 
hearts by faith." Peter was speaking of the time he 
preached to Cornelius and his household, and the 
Holy Ghost fell upon them. Nov\' Oornelins was not 
-a sinner, as some would be glad to intimate, but a 
just man, for God says so, and Peter speaking of the 
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faith which they received (at Pentecost. Many would 
h'ave us believe that the discipdes were sinners ibef ore 
Pentecost. It would be a strange thing if Jesus for- 
gave sins for those to whom He ministered of the 
sick folks, and failed to forgive the sins of His dis- 
ciples who were daily with Him. Besides Pie tells 
%em to rejoice because their names are written in 
heaven. We find Peter a 'coward ; Thomas a doubt- 
er ; James and John covetous ; 'and many other car- 
nal traits in many -of them before Peaitecost, but af- 
ter they had received the baptism of the Holy Obost 
and fire, purging away a)ll their inbred sin, we find 
ifhem an altogether different set of folks. They are 
no longer cowards, ibut gladly give their lives for 
Jesus ; !they are willing to ibe the off-scouring of the 
world for His sake. 

Another verse which ciannot be gainsaid is found 
in Romans 6 :6 (let the word of God speak, for it can 
not lie), '^Knowing this, fbat our old man is eruci- 
fied with him, that the body of sin mii^M be destroy- 
ed, that henceforth we sihould not serve sin." 

Also read Eph. 4:22-24, Malachi 3:3, '*And he 
shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he 
shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as 
gold 'and silver, thiat th.ey may offer unto the Lord 
an offering in righteousness.** The sons of Levi are 
not sinners, but in this case represent the children 
of God. 

Jtames 4:8, Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and 
purify your hearts, ye dou'We-minded,*' the justified 



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are the double-minded, having the mind of Christ 
and the carnal mind. 

1 John 1:7, "But if we walk in the light as he is 
in the light, we have fellowship one with another, 
and the blood of Jesus Ohrist his Son cleanseth us 
from all sin." Also the ninth verse, sin in the sin- 
gular number means our unrighteous nature, w^hile 
sins in the plural numher means our actual trans- 
gressions. We are not to blame for this inbred sin, 
because vve were born witli it, it having 'Come down 
to us from Adam, but we become Tesponsible as soon 
as we find the means for its removal, just a.s we be- 
come responsible if we contract a dreadful disease 
and know of a remedy for its cure, if we fail to make 
use of the remedy we must bear the consequences. 

John says, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive 
ourselves and the truth is not in us." Right above 
this verse says, "The blood will cleanse us from lalll 
sin," so he refers to those who are saved, and eon- 
tend they have no sin, having, as yet not been cleans- 
ed. 

Eomans 8:6, "For to be ■carnally minded is death, 
but to be spiTitiially minded is life and peace." 

Eighth verse, " So then the}^ that 'are in the flesh 
cannot please God." This does not mean the body, 
because in the next verse Paul says, "'But ye are 
not in the flesh, hut in he Spirit, if so be that the 
Spirit of Grod dwell in you." 

A great many refer to the 3, 4, 5 verses of the 
sixth ohapter of Romans as meaning water baptism, 



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but vvater is not once mentioned in this whole chap- 
ter. It speaks of being baptized n-ot into water, but 
into Christ, not bnried in a watery grave, but buried 
into death, meaning deatii to the 'okl 'carnal nature, 
■and arising to wvalk in newness of life, as the follow- 
ijig veraes show: 

Paud in the 7th chapter of Romans in the 24th 
vers^, spea'ks oi a li^^e man, walking about with a 
dead man strapped to him, which was a means of 
capital punishment in those days. Now n sinner is 
not alive but dead in trespasses and sins. So this 
is a picture of a justified person, with this awful car- 
nal nature strapped to him, that will sooner or later, 
if not removed, cause his spiritual life to deeay 'and 
die. 

Heb. 10:14, ''For by one offering he hath per- 
fected forever them that are sanctified. Then 
sajnctification 'means, "set apart.'* This is our part. 
W e lay ourselves upon the altar a, holy, living sacri- 
fice. R'om'ans 12 :1, to be used of Ood iiu any way he 
sees fit; willing to go to Afrioa as a missionary or 
stay at home ; A\dlling to testify and pray in puiblic ; 
willing to obey Ood in ithe face of opposition and 
persecution ; dead to honor, or dishonor, friends 'Or 
enemies, poverty or wealth, no matter what comes 
or goes set apart to do God 's will through thi'ck and 
thin. Here then comes, "power for service." The 
disvcip^les never could 'have gone througih 'w'hat they 
did if the Holy Ghost had not filled them. John says, 
"Greater is he that is within you, than he that is 



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without." Just so witli God's little ones. The Ho- 
ly Ghost is not for the world but for the children of 
God. Read John 14 :17, also 17 :9, 17. They could 
never go through what is expected of them without 
the Holy Comforter to give them courage, determin- 
ation, and holy joy in all their tribulatious, tests and 
triak. In a word He gives them ''povrer for ser- 
vice." For He Himself is that power, and while He 
abides He keeps the temple clean. So without the 
least bit of eondemnation God's little ones can serv^e 
Him in holiness and godly fear all the days of their 
lives. 



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CHAPTER IX. 
Consecration. 

A g-reat deal lias been written on this subject, a 
great deal more has been experienced, and yet there 
is alwajTs more to learn. 

We 'alwa^^ associate an offering with an altar and 
a priest. In old-en times when an animal was requir- 
ed as an offering it had to be a fine speedmen of its 
kind, without a blemish, a who^le offering; not one- 
eyed, or lame, or sick. Supposing a certain man 
wished to make an offering; he selected the finest, 
sleekest, fattest ealf he could find out 'of his herd, 
went to the temple early in the morning to offer it 
t-o the priest, and found the priest drunk or sick, 
would that not be an awfu'l calamity for that poor 
man that felt the wrath of God upon him, and wish- 
ed to ajtA^ne for his sins? 

Hoy/ glad we ought to be that our Priest is always 
reaxiy ! Always hears our cry ; never turns us away ! 

Then (in those days sometimes a man had to walk 
fifty miies or more in order to reach the only altar 
■^vfliere his offering Avould be accepted of Ood. Now 
Jesus is 'Our altar. Whenever we are ready to make 
the offering, our altar is right by our i&ide, and all 
we have to do is to lay our offering upon it. 

However, if we have it mrch handier in these dayc 
in regard to onr Priest and all tar, yet we have more 



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difHci:lty in o'btaining our o:ffering. Instead of go- 
ing t') a herd and selecting an animal to slied its 
blood ,in our behalf, vre are the offering ourselves, 
and niust contribute every -cirop of blood that is 
dro vvn (spiritually speaking) by the circumcision of 
•blie heart. That is not all. Before we are even 
ready to be offered, we must be washed in th^ blood 
■of Jesus in order to wasih mvay all our sins, whdcih 
regenerates in us a nevr life, making us a living sae- 
rifiee, holy and acceptable to God. But before that 
hlood can be applied we must get on believing 
ground, and before vre can get on believing ground, 
-Yfe mu'St repent of our sins, turning our back upon 
every sin, renounciag the world, making restitution 
Viiiere w^e have wronged ^any one. and confessing 
where we have done harm. Just as a man in oklen 
times might take a calf out of his herd, take it to 
Sirs tent, and keep it where he could fatten it, and 
make it as nice and perfect, an offering as possible, 
»o Jesus if we let Ilim and are willing to obey his 
voice, will take our black, sinful, pointed livens and 
wa^^hdng us and giving us grace to straigihten up all 
crooked back tracks, will make out of us a tit sub- 
ject for an offering that will be acceptable to Gocl. 

In those days the animal had to die for the man, 
in these days we have to die; and no matter how 
anxious we are to be sanctified, no matter how much 
we loathe the old carnal nature and wish to get rid 
■of it, it is not an easy matter to die. After the nails 
'have all been driven, after fatiher, mother, wife, 



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ohrldren, housyes and lands have all been laid on the 
altar, tfliere is yet a struggle as the old man breathes 
hds last. He has lots of life, and di&s hard. He will 
plead for just the tiniest consideration. Sometimes 
he gives up all but a vv edding ring ; s-ometimes every- 
thing but the ehurch and preacher; sometimes he is 
willing to go to Africa, India, anywhere, but let me 
stay in the lodge. God never let the fire fall until 
ithe offering was all on the altar, 'and no one was ever 
sanctified that ever kept 'anythin,g from 'God, and no 
m<itter where the hiitch is the old man will always 
give 'all but cling to his idol, Vv'hatever that may be. 
Sometimes it is reputation, money, etc., but glory to 
God, wlhen the last final ' ' yes ' ' is given for time and 
eternity, the fire falls and the old man is consumed. 
The old man is dead, and will always remain dead 
as long ^as the offering remains upon the altar. 

Now here is w^here the devil misleads some folks. 
They seem to think their offering is on some spirit- 
ual altar, and it is not disturbed if they do not di- 
rectly go and literally take something off. If we 
realize that Jesus Himself is our altar, land the least 
disobedience disturbs the offering we see things in 
a clearer light. When Jesus says, "Give one hun- 
dred dollars to that missionary,'^ if we disobey we 
have taken that from the 'altar and will have to re- 
pent, and lay it back again by doing as he requested. 
If we fail to testify just because some holiness fig^ht- 
ing preaeher tells us not to he so plain, we have med- 
dled with our offering and it is not intact. Hence 



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if we disobey in just 'these little things and fail to 
keep the fire burning by saying **Yes" contimially, 
and submitting to his complete control eA^erywhere 
and all the time, we widl find our joy gone, the fire 
out and our feet fast slipping tow^ard hell. For the 
mian or woman that has ever been sanctified and 
ithen backed down, woe ! woe ! unto them ! Hell will 
be hotter and more unendurable for them than for 
the most wicked man that ever lived and didn 't have 
the light, unless they repent and do the first works 
over again. 



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CHAPTER X. 
Submission. 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. James 4^7. 

This is one of the hardest lessons for the human 
family to learn. Those who do not learn it never 
reach heaven. Even the little two-year old show? 
stubbornness, thinks it knows it all, would rathe? 
walk alone than be led, gets ungry because it canH 
have the scissors, butcher knife and dangerous 
ithiiigs in general. The drunkard laughs at you v»^en 
you suggest he should come to Jesus and live a holy 
life ; he would rather have 'his freedom and his whis- 
key, not realizing that he is bound by ch-ains stron- 
ger than any forged here on earth. The belle of fash- 
ion considers religion a soft sentimental affair be- 
neath her notice, the business man ihas no time nor 
inclination to be tied down by certain cranky laws 
and notions. 

Not until under the pangs of deep pungent con- 
viction, v^^hen men and women see the awful chains 
binding them, the devil with 'his terrible la^h whip- 
ping them hellward, and an avnful, burning ever- 
lasting hell awaiting them, will they sumbit them- 
selves to God, and allow Him to unloose their heavy 
burden of sin, sever tbe chains that bind them, and 
lead captivity captive. 

Their first lesson in submission is learned. In- 



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stead 'of reibe'ls, they are now the children of God. 
Their one desire is to please Him in all things. How- 
ever, before long they find another law in their 
memhers, warring against the law of their minds. 
Romans 7:23; Gal. 5:17. When they want to tes- 
tify there is something that holds them ha/ek ; when 
they want to do anything for Jesn^ there is some- 
thing that troubles them. There are upri^sings of 
pride, anger and hatred, envy, jealousy, etc., and 
they must constantly watch and pray. 

Thank God for the better way. They go to a ho- 
liness meeting, and hear about sanctification, that 
second, definite work of grace that will compttetely 
eradicate that troublesome something. Then they 
are gi^ad to come once more to Jesus ; but this time 
the submission required is altogether different. The 
other time they laid down their arms of rebellion 
and sfubmitted to the law of God, now they submit 
their body a living sacrifice. Time, talent, money, 
houses, lands, are given to God; before it was re- 
bellion laid down, now it is a consecrated offering, 
and tthey are sanctified wholly. 

Now comes a real life of submission. Fully aban- 
doned to the Holy Ghost, they give the reins com- 
pletely into His hands, and He rules and controls. 
Even here there are continually lessons to be learn- 
ed. Many things happen every day that we hand 
over to God in loving submission to Him. We are 
never so completeily yielded up but w'hRi under more 
light we can yield a little more. Oh, to be pa^ssive 



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in my -Saviour's hands I To kno\v no will but His! 
No resisting, no rebellion, no shrinking, no matter 
how thick the tight, how fierce the battle, how hot 
the fnrna-ce ! But a glad ''yes" that gets broader, 
reaches deeper, towers hig'her, and grows larger as 
the years roll by. 

Sometimes the devil tells me aithongh I am saved 
and sane titled and determined to go through, yet 
some day I ^^"ill fall and lose heaven after all. How 
it makes me tremble, and I wonder how I can better 
secure myself against falling, than what I have al- 
ready done. Then I see nothing to do 'but submit 
even more fully to God, and as I do this, I can feel 
myself sinking deeper and deeper into Him, for noth- 
ing miust keep us out of heaven, no matter hoyv 
thorny the path, how steep the incline, how rugged 
the way, by all means heaven must be reached, and 
reacii it we Avill if we let Ood take us there. 



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CHAPTER XI. 
A Dead People. 



For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ 
in God. Col. 3 :3. 

A Baptist preacher once told tt'his story. . A young 
man in a certain theological sdhool went to one of 
tihe professors one day and asked him what sanctifi- 
feation meant. The professor fthoug^ht a moment and 
tftien s-aid, ''You remember Col. Jim wiio died last 
.year?'' "Yes." "Will you go to his grave, and 
say all the mean things you can think about him, 
and to him?" The student seemed somewhat puz- 
zled, but reflecting that the professor was one of the 
fsoundest men Oie knew of, he went and did as he 
was bidden. After he came back and told the pro- 
fessor he had obeyed him, the professor said, "Now 
you go iback and say all the nice things to him you 
-can think of, praise and flatter him abundantly." 
The young man was more puzzled than ever, but 
feeling he was in for it, thougiht it poor policy to 
stop now, so he went the second time iand did exact- 
ly as told. After reporting to the professor, he was 
asked iby the old kindhearted instructor : ' ' Did Jim 
scold back when you talked mean to him?" " Wliy, 
no," replied the young man, "ihe is dead.** ''Well, 
did he swell up and smile back at you when you 



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praised him?" ''Why, no," again responded fhe 
young man, "he is dead I tell you." "Well," said 
'the professor, "that is what sanotification means, 
dead to criticism and to praise, and only alive unto 
Ood." 

Before I knew 'about sanctification I was alv/ays 
afraid I would do soimething that would cause other 
folks to find fault with me; always afraid when I 
saw two heads together that I was the sole subject 
of their conversation, was always looking for praise, 
and if I did not get it, would feel blue and discour- 
aged. I prided myself on my morality, and was 
very much surprised when other folks could see fault 
in me, laid awake nights making excuses, and vin- 
dicating my own actions before my mind, trying to 
make myself believe I always did the right thing ev- 
ery time. I would stoutly cling to and fight for my 
rights, and I felt I was the most abused person liv- 
ing. Often I wished that I might die, and then in 
my imagination would picture myself lying in my 
ooffin, while all those people that I felt had so abused 
me were standing around my dead body and lament- 
ing the way they had treated me. I was a girl with 
a very tender, sensitive nature, and having a step- 
mother, seemed to me everyone v/as against me, but 
how many with every comfort, are just as dissatisfied 
as I was. It was simply the old carnal spirit acting 
out its old self- conceited, self-approved nature. 

How glad I am that I ever got rid of those tor- 
menting fears, that I let G-od crucify the old man. 



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Now, Glory to Jesus, there can be a dozen heads to- 
getiher, it makes no difference to me. As long as 
our hearts are pure, onr souls clean, our consciences 
clear, and we are walking daily with God, they may 
dissect all our intentions, may disapprove our ac- 
tions, and misitake our motives, as long as we know 
we are o'beying our Master, walking in the light, and 
realizing his smile is upon us, all is well. Glory to 
God! 

We should be equally dead to praise. Praise should 
make us feel like sinking away out of sight, and be- 
moan our own utter unworthiness. The closer we 
get to God the more of his holiness we enjoy, the 
more we see our own human weakness, the shortness 
of our vision, the liability of falling, the utter help- 
lessness with which we must lean on God, and our 
many mistakes. 

With this picture there is nothing left for us to 
boast of, and we feel more than ever that all glory 
belongs to God; and instead of taking praise we a'b- 
hor it. Glory to Jesus. Just as possible as it is to be 
dead on the lines just mentioned, just so dead can we 
be to the pleasures of the world. Anyone that still 
hankers after the pleasures of the world is not sanc- 
tified. Many times newly sanctified folks, who have 
not been better taught, will go once more to their 
usual pastimes, that to them do not appear particu- 
Isivly sinful. However they find a strange distaste for 
the conversation in the lodge room, which seemed 
to be the dearest place on earth before. The base- 



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ball game does not seem to imterest as before, and the 
eyes are soon opened to the fact that the pleasures 
of yore are pleasures no longer, and the secret closet, 
the prayer meeting, the hour spent in reading Grod's 
word are such seasons lof real joy and communion 
with Uod, that the other pleasures fade away in com- 
parison, and very soon the devil canuot even tempt 
them to cast a single longing glance in the wrong 
direction. Glory to Grod ! 

There is also a strange deadness for the love of 
m'oney. People that would stand and jew the clerk 
for half an hour, after they get sanctified pay the 
price asked and are content. Beifore, they would 
count the pennies and exact even change to the half 
cent, and if they happened to drop a quarter in the 
collection box in church instead of a nickel, they 
were very careful to pick out four nickles to make up 
the shortage. Now they toss in a doillar, and wish 
they could give more. On Thanksgiving day in- 
stead of feasting themselves, they give to the poor. 
Money is held very loosely, beside the Lord getting 
his tenth (not out of the profit but out of the yearly 
income) every missionary meeting, every rescue ser- 
vice finds them ready to pledge all they possibly can, 
and v/hat is marvellous to people of the world, but a 
wedl known fact, they always have money to give. 
Grlory to Jesus. They no longer lay up for rainy 
days, or for the children to quarrel over after they 
are dead and gone, neither are they afraid of going 
to the poorhouse, hut some way they are nov/ the 



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real stewards of the Lord's iwealth, and they give it 
out gladly and willingly whenever He bids. These 
people ^are certainly a peenliar iset. They are dead 
to fine homes also ; they can sing from the heart : 
A tent or a eottage, why should I care, 
They're building a mansion for me over there — 
The ambition of most woirldly folks is to have a 
home in this world, and many are the privations and 
hardships they are w^illing to undergo in order 
to obtain a home, and the nicer, the fancier, and the 
more imposing, the better they like it. Many times 
they skimp on the foundation and add to the trim- 
ming to make as much show as possible. 

Not so with the sanctified. They covet none of 
these fine homes. Any dwelling, any climate, any 
country is congenial to them provided that is G-od's 
place for them. Instead of complaining, if their 
dwelling is an humble one, they hallow it with songs 
of victory and praise, and many the seasons of joy 
and glory around the family altar, when father and 
mother thank God for his goodness to them. Grlory 
to God. 

I speak from experience. When we first came to 
Washington, we lived in what is now our chicken 
house, a whole year. Afterv/ard God permitted us 
to build a two-storj^ house in order to accommo- 
date the demands made upon us by the work, but 
many times when I gvi to feed the chickens I love 
to linger in the little, low shanty, and my eyes will 
fill with tears, as T remember the many happy sea- 



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sons spent with Grod in that hu'mble home. It was 
in this shanty that a Baptist preacher knelt with 
us and asked God to baptize him with the Holy 
Grhost, and others were blessed on their way to 
heaven. 

There is just one more point I want to refer to. 
Sanctified folks are dead to their own good deeds 
and ac compiishments. When o>ther folks think they 
are doing a great deal, they think they are dong very 
little. There are so many isaints in their estimation 
so far ahead of them, that they feel very much be- 
hind. Then there is such a vast territory yet unex- 
plored, so many mountain peaks yet to climb, that 
they consider their progress mighty slow, and what 
they have already done sinks into insignificance to 
what there is yet to be done. It seems like a drop in 
the ocean and not v/orthy of mention. As long as 
God can keep us thus dead, all is well, but when the 
least life manifests itself in answering back, in ac- 
cepting praise, in loving money, in coveting fine 
homes, in pride of what we have done let us fly im- 
mediately to the Blood, and in utter humility swear 
allegiance anew to King Emmanuel and Him alone. 
Amen. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

A Live People. 

Likevdse reckon ye also yourselves to be dead in- 
deed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Eom. 6 

Just as truly as a branch of a thrifty grape vine 
p'l anted in deep rich soil is bound to bear an abund- 
amce of rich luscious fruit, so a Christian, who abides 
in the true vine, is purged by the divine vine dresser, 
and is p'lanted in good Canaan soil, is bound to bear 
fruit. 

A icertain elderly lady got saved and san<jtified 
in our last summer's meeting. She said she had 
been seeking peace for twenty years. She belonged 
to the Eastern Star, and her conception of being 
good amd noble was to have day dreams of visiting 
this world and comforting broken hearts after she 
had died and her spirit had separated from her body, 
and going out among the flowers woiild worship 
them, as pure sweet things, and teli them her griefs 
and sorrows. But now she has found Jesus' pre- 
cious to her soul, and has been purged as a true 
oranch of the true vine, and her heart's cry is, ''Oh 
Lord, let one do something for you!" 

She now does mot see any need of '^Vaiting to do 
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nov,- -wiiiie she is vet in the 'body; besides it is a delu- 
sion of the devil to wait until we are dead to do 
good. Then the flowers are certainly sweet and 
pure, 'but their purity is not voluntary ; they were so 
created and could not by anything else, therefore 
they deserve no glory, but the One vvho created them 
merits all the praise. 

Now these live folks seem to thrive on a soil that 
worldly folks would wither and die on. Worldly 
folks can't see no use in depriving themselves of jev/- 
elry and feathers and a lot of unnecessary fineries in 
order to send the money to the heathen. They think 
prri\'er meetings dreadfully dry, and 'have no pa- 
tieiiee with preachers that are too cranky. They 
try to dro-v\ii sorrow in whiskey and a round of 
vroi^ldly pleasure, and know nothing of long suffer- 
in*;?, patience, love, meekness, kindue.ss, gentleness, 
etc. 

How different with the sanctified folks. How they 
grow in a prayer meeting ! How they send out new 
shoots 'of faith, hope and trust ! Hoav new^ determi- 
nation, new zeal, new power courses through the av- 
enues of their souls ! Hov/ mellow be-comes their 
love, how sweet their kindness and long suffering. 
Oh ! theprayer meeting was a regular freshet from 
above. The leaves take on a deeper green, and the 
fruit is ready to burst with riohness. Glory to Jesus ! 
Laying off jevv'elry and superfluous finery, puts a 
fi'ber in ones Christian experience that nothing else 
can. To v/ear them in face of better light is to 



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dwindle and die. It is a notiiceable fact that those 
wfho cling to these things are sickly and weak, and 
bear no fruit. The world while it is unwilling itself 
to give up these things, kno\vs very w^ell that the one 
professing religion still wearing them has 'but little^ 
if any, spiritual vitality, and they are not put under 
conviction by such a one. 

Then sanctified people show a great deal of life 
by the great amount of truth they can absorb from 
a red-hot Holy G^host ser-mon. Have you ever no- 
ticed a tlhrifty plant, how eagerly the leaves stretch 
forth to receive the welcome rain? How different 
with a plant that is about dried up. It's absorbing 
power is most gone, and it does not drink in the 
rain as fast as before. So it is with tihe Cliristian, 
Those vfho live nearest to Ood require the strongest 
food. They can easily digest gospel meat, and the 
closer the truth cuts, the more solid the preaciher's 
remariks, the better they like it, and when you think 
they ought to be satisfied as Bro. Reese says, they 
look around for more. Grlorj^ to God ! they keep say- 
ing ''amen'" to God as the truth comes to them, and 
are determined to walk in all the lig-^ht they get ; the>' 
take deeper root in Canaan soil, and my, how they 
grow ! 

Sorrow and loss instead cd weakening them only 
makes them stronger. We have noticed the vine 
that e'lung to the support so closely, and hoiw it 
drooped for a little wlhile when the support was 
taken avvay, but after a while it gained strength to 



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climb up the side of tilie house itself, and was a thing 
of TDeauty. So it is with us, when Ood removes some 
prop wo have been leaning on. 

For a while we seem crushed and feol our weak- 
ness to live without that certain prop, but as W€ 
lean 'harder on God, we find to our surprise and 
pieasuire that the support was rather 'a hindranee, 
than a help, and we grow strong leaning on God 
only. 

How many times we get our eyes on some big 
preacher. To us he seems tihe em^bodiment of truth 
and holiness, when God will permit him to make 
some mistake, perhaps be unwise in judgment, and 
behold our prop is fallen, and we are compelled to 
■acknowledge only God can safely steer us into port. 
As we lean on Him, we find ourselves climbing high- 
er and higher, until some day we will be high enougsi 
to step inside the pearly gates. G-lory to Ood ! Oh 
halleluja^h, for the possibilities in grace. Will vve 
ever be able to praise Him enough for what He has 
done, is doing, and will do for us? 

Thank Ood they are alive to the ery of lost souls, 
the broken-hearted, the needy and discouraged, et<c. 
They eount not their lives dear unto themselves, but 
are always doing good some WRJ, somewhere. No 
matter how deep in sin, they know there is a ery in 
tihat soul that no one but God can answer. Even the 
rich cannot drown it by worldly pleasure and com- 
fort; even the heathen in their ignorance seek means 
to satisfy that heart-hunger, and fail to find it un- 



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less some nuissionarv shows them the way. Oh, the 
need of true soldiers of the cross, who are dead to 
s'^Ii and alive to Cxod, who are not deaf to the mute 
appeals eoming from every side ! j.Iay God stir up 
■our latent forces, and make us fully alive to tiie 
needs of 'Our fellovr- brothers and sisters! They are 
also alive to tiie voice of Ood. He doesn't have to 
talk to them in thunder tones, 'tiiroug^h bereavement, 
throuig^h losses and trouble, 'but they gladly, eheer- 
fully obey, go, give, do, as the case may be. Tliey 
ean understand his leadings. Whenever other folks 
■say, "It is too bad. that meeting was a failure." 
"They seem to have no success whatever," they can 
see great suecess and decisive victories. W'hen oth- 
er foslks liave the blues and are discouraged, they are 
•sh'outin^ the victory and are overflooded with joy, 
because they can see God's liand over it all, and they 
know 'he never loses a battle. Olory to God! They 
are a'live to the least vibration from keaven. "When 
other folks don't see anything in sig-ht, they are 
feasting and having a great time. The least touc'h 
from the battery in the skies, v/ill set them to tink- 
ling a'll over, and such is their joy it is unspeakable 
and full of glory. Oh, glory to Jesus! their joy is 
real, and long lived, and in the strength of it they 
do valiantly. Glory to God! 

It is not dependent on surroundings or congenial 
eireuiinstanees, but in the most uiilikely places it 
bubl)les up land overflows, and blessed is the man or 
woman who receives the overflow. Around death 



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beds, amidst persecution, at any time, in any place, 
praise his name ; praise God forever ! 

Their testimonies are fragrant and spicy. No old 
goods that were delivered a hnndred times before, 
but sjomet'hing fresh from the throne. They don't 
need to copy someone's else testimony; they have 
all they can do to deliver their own. They are usu- 
ally the first to speak, and if the others do not hurry, 
they won't even have a chance. Sometimes their 
testimony is full of fire, and the sparks as they fall 
on hearts, cause havoc in the enemy's ranks. 

Their love is the real live kind. It is the pure 
article unadulterated. The unfeigned kind the apos- 
tle speaks about. It is not pumped up but comes 
spontaneoxLs'ly, reaches even the bitterest enemdes 
with full! force, splashes all over those who ill-treat, 
misuse and slander, is warm and iinchangea'ble to- 
w-ard O-od and the brethren, ardent and loyal to the 
cause and the Bible. 

Their patience is not the kind that sets its teeth 
•and bears it. It is the long-suffering kind, and when 
everything goes w^rong, the devil is mad, and blue 
smoke from the pit fills the air, they have a fine 
chance to 'increase their stock and enrich the quality, 
and they don't fail to improve the oppo'rtunity. 

May we become so rooted in love and so grow in 
grace, that we will indeed be a light to the world, 
salt to the earth, and an adornment instead of a dis- 
grace to the Grospel, bearing much fruit for the 
Master. Amen. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

God's Little Lights. 
Ye are the light of the world. Matt. 5 :14. 

Jesus is the light of the world. We are the lam^ps 
fthrough which He shines. The darker our sixr- 
roiundings, the more sin there is around us, the more 
olearly our liig'ht ought to shine. How beatuiful the 
life oif a patient, meek, humble saint shines, when it 
is surTiOunded by lives that are coarse, impatient and 
uneouth. How sublime is the light that sihines forth 
from the life of a saint that must be spent on an in- 
valid's icouch, or in an invalid's ehair, when that life 
is spent uncomplainingly, with cheerfulness, and a 
patience born from above. Then the light that radi- 
ates from a life wholly given up to Grod leaves behind 
it a shining trail, that others seeking the road to 
heaven may find and walk therein. 

The justified soul sheds forth light, but it is often 
obscured by the smoke of carnality. I often have 
compared the justified life with a kerosene lamp. 
They need replenishing again and again. Everj^ 
winter the preacher must hold protracted meetings 
in order to get them fixed up and ready to s-hine. 
Then just as the lamp will not burn until a lighted 
match is appilied, so they need eonstant encourage- 
ment to keep them alive. A gust of '\^^nd in the line 
of opposition or persecution will often blow out the 



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light, and sometimes the glo'be is so smoked up with 
self-inteirests that Jesus can hardly shine through at 
■A They must lay up for a rainy day, they must 
not go to prayer meeting when it is too cold or too 
hot on .account of their health, A few drops of crit- 
icism would burst the globe, and sometimes when 
you need a light the most, the lamp is empty. 

Bro. Reese tells us this story. A certain woman 
■wais very anxious to see her husband saved. 8h€ 
prayed ^and prayed to tOiis end, but he seemed verj: 
indifferent. One day however, he was out in the 
field plowing, and the Lord was talking to him. The 
Holy G^host showed him a recoi'd of his life how he 
(bad heen rebelling a'gainst G-od, and was a lost man 
on his way to hell. The 'conviction grew deeper and 
deeper until he dropped the lines and started for 
the house, expecting to ask his wife to pray for him. 
Wihen he got within hearing distance he heard 
strange noises, and when he reached the house he 
found his good Christian wife all out of patience. 
She was trying to wash and one of the children had 
upset the tub, and things were going wrong in gen- 
eral. Instead of using patience and trusting G-od, 
she flew off the handle, as the expression is, and 
scolded furiously. Of course the husband eould not 
make his errand known under such circumstances, 
and went back to the field still an unsaved man. 

Instead of finding the lamp burning brightly, he 
found it empty and dark. Of course she had to re- 
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Thank God, there is auotiier 'class, who go by that 
despised name, "the sanctified." These we can 
liken to an electric light. No matter how hard the 
winds of adversity blow, no matter what the expos- 
ure to the rains of false doctrine and heresy, they 
swing gaily in the wind, shining brightly through 
the dark ndght. No need of a match here as long 
as they stay connected with the power house on 
high. Just a twist and you have a clear steady 
light always, always reliable. They will shine wher- 
ever you put them, whether in the home of the rich 
or the poor, and the globes are never smoky. Jesus 
can always shine out without any mixture of self. 
Then the g^lobes are air tight, not a bit of the world 
on the inside, and the.y sihine until their work is^lone, 
and then go out to shine in Heaven forevermore. 

Then these 'lights reveal the awfulness of sin, just 
as the electric light reveals dirt and filth when 
turned on. A certain lady who had small children, 
and who had worked hard all day, was just getting 
ready to sweep when some distinguished guests were 
announced and were ushered right into the room 
looking so untidy. She welcomed her guests and 
sat down to talk to them, never mentioning the con- 
dition of the room, but she was careful not to light 
a lamp, knowing that her visitors would soon depart, 
and in the dusk of evening could not discern the un- 
tidy appearance of the room. Just so sin loves to 
hide in dark, secluded places. It hates the light, 
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li^glit chines upon it, it is ^revealed and uncovered. 
So it is with sinners living near the bright light of 
a consecrated life they get under conviction, and 
either get saved, or try to get av.'ay vvdiere tihey can 
live unrebuked in their sin. 

What bright lights some of those saints were that 
lived years ago. How their holy lives shone out 
amidst the darkness and superstition of those awfuti 
days. John and Charles Wesley, Frances Havergal, 
Madam {ruyon, George Fox, George Mueller, Jo^hn 
Fletcher, Knox and many more w'hose loyalty to 
God. love for souls, and untiring zeal for the I>Iaster, 
made them giants in the cause of Christ. Their 
light has shone around the whole world, and still 
continues to shine. Glory to God ! and many a sin- 
ner, siek and weary of stumbling along in the dark, 
finds a stream of light pouring down from these lives 
that directs him to the right path leading to glory. 
The sermons they have left on record, the account 
of their iholy self-sacrificing lives, the inspired songs 
they wrote continue to light up many a dark hour 
for the saints, and bring many wandering ones in- 
the fold. Glory to Jesus ! 

Every dollar we fail to give, every tear we hold 
back, every testimony that is quenched, every pray- 
er neglected, every service, no matter Ihow small,, 
that w^e might have done and did not do, will weak- 
en onr light, and there will be soids at the judgment 
that will upbraid us for our negligence in not doing- 
our best for God. Wihereas, if we do our best con- 



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tinually, not counting our lives dear unto ourselves, 
■our lig-hts will sMne out clear and steady, and pre- 
cious never-dying souls will greet us on the other 
side, guided safely thither by the unwavering radi- 
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CHAPTER XIV. 
Jesus . 

For there is none other name under heaven given 
among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts. 4 :12. 

Jesus ! Jesus ! Jesus ! Can 'we fathom the full mean- 
ing of this word? Can we measure the height, 
length, depth and breadth of this word of all words? 
It is higher than our thoughts, deeper than mortal 
has ever fallen, as long as eternity, and broader 
than the love of the fondest mother that ever lived. 

I do not believe that any other world recognizes 
the Son of God by that name except this one. This 
world, the smallest of the planets, that has wandered 
so far away from God, that has 'gone to the depth of 
sin, that is sending up into the ears of God such wails 
of sorrow, pain, anguish, terror, suffering and shrieks 
of death, that are staggering, blinded and duped by 
the devil to an awful eternal hell, to this world has 
been given this one word, Jesus! and w^hosoever be- 
lieves and accepts this name shall be saved. Oh 
glory to God ! 

The power of this one word ean frighten devils, 
forgive sins, sanctify believers, heal the sick, com- 
fort the dying, give grace in trial, move the arm of 
God, cause locked doors to swing open, open prisons, 
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sea and win the vdctory in every battle for God. 
Glory to his name! 

The name of Jesus sounds sweeter, and fascinates 
the true sanctified heart more than any other word 
in the world. Home is a sweet word, and many lov- 
ing, tender memories cling around the word to 
some; hut 'how many there are in this world that 
hate the word home, because when thej think of 
home, n'othing but 'a little hell on earth greets their 
inward vision. 

Mother and father are sweet words, but many a 
boy and girl never knew a mother's love, or a fa- 
ther's care. Jesus will 'be all to us we allow 
Him to ibe. He has never disappointed a single soul 
that put its trust in Him. He woos with such ten- 
der love, and holds vvdth such constant affection, that 
His name grows svv^eeter as the days go by. 

One day as husband was reading the morning les- 
son for family worship he came to that word, that 
magic word, Jesus! I had often heard that word 
before ; I knew its power to forgive sins, and cleanse 
from all unrighteousness. It has often cheered me 
on my way to glory, but this morning as husband 
read that word, it fell on my ears with a thrill I nev- 
er felt before and it sounded like the sweetest music 
I ever heard. I immediately burst into tears of joy 
and praise. Ail that day I kept saying over and 
over to myself ^as I went about my day's work, Je- 
sus ! Jesus! Jesus! Oh, how it thrilled me through, 
and through, and ever since that memoraible day, the 



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name of Jesus is the sweetest of all music to me. 
Bless His precious name forever ! 

Why does ttiis name so please and 'charm? "Why 
does it hold such power in its emlbrace? Other men 
mi'g'ht have that name, and it would not have any 
more power than other names. Oh, here is the se- 
cret! It is the One behind the name. The One who 
was willing to manifest His love toward a lost -world 
by giving His life for it. Let us keep our eyes on 
Him. He will lead us safely to His side, where we 
will not only have His name, (but see Him face to 
face, for if His name can so comfort and cheer us, 
what will His real presence 'be? 

Oh, the precious name of Jesus, 
How it thrills our hearts with joy. 

When His loving arms receive us 
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CHAPTER XV. 
Loyal Hearts. 

Oh. 'how few the loyal hearts ! While I write this, 
the tears are falling on 1;he table on which I write, 
my heart is so burdened because there is so much 
that is all surface ; when you get underneath things, 
there is nothing but self. 

How it must, grieve the father heart of G-od to 
have so many stand and say, "Saved and sanctified 
up-to-date" when the joy bells stopped ringing long 
■ago, and that very person is doing things he knows 
to be wrong. 

Like 'Gideon's band, again and again God must 
sift the chaff from the wheat, and how few the real 
kernels left? Even some holiness evangelists that 
we would think were the acme of honesty and purity 
are many times wolves in sheep's clothing! Seems 
to me it grieves Ood more to have one of His children 
backslide than if they had never repented. Oh, the 
great loving heart of God ! How can anyone be dis- 
loyal is a mystery to me. Let us look into our own 
hearts. Has God full and complete 'control? Is He 
first in everythinig? Do we consult Him when we 
wish to buy a farm, move to another icity, sell a 
horse, go into business, etc? Do we love Him with 
all our hearts, all our strength, 'all our might ? IMore 
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houses and lands? Are we willing to go anywhere, 
be 'anything for Him? Do we live daily, hourly to 
His g"*lory? Are we just as loyal to Him when no 
eye sees us 'but His, as we are when folks see us ? 

If God had one hundred hearts that could answer 
all these questions with 'a glad "yes" and ''amen'* 
united, it is impossible to say what they could not 
do. Oh let us (be sure we are not living a double life ; 
one thing when human eyes are on us, and some- 
thing else w*hen we think no one sees us. One thing 
•we know of a surety, Ood always sees us, and people 
are not as blind to our wrongdoings as the devil 
would have us believe. Somehow the most covere;! 
up sin is sure to find ventilation, so let us be really, 
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CHAPTER XVI. 
Tame Holiness. 

How nice it is! How careful of others' feelings! 
Plow it prides itself in being at peace with every- 
body, exciting no persecution, leaving the devil 
alone and consequently he leaves it alone. 

Once a flame of fire with the heat and glow of the 
Holy Ohost, and the sharp, two-edged sword cutting 
and melting its way through v^^alls of frozen sin, car- 
nality, worldliness and formality, rescuing precious 
souls all frozen in, asleep in their carnal security, 
stirring all hell, and causing the devil to groan with- 
in himself as he wonders what he should try next to 
stop this avalanche of power from on high, which is 
(Causing such havoc in his kingdom. 

He tries persecution, which hesends with all haste 
thick and fast, laughing in his hellish glee as he 
thinks that now he will gain his point. 

But what is this? Higher and higher rises this 
hol}^ flame sending warmth far and near, hungry, 
cold, starved souls eagerly grasping f or the heavenly 
food and warmth, for when the Holy Ghost has right 
of way, souls are always saved. So the devil found 
that God took care of his little ones, and gave them 
additional grace, power and joy, causing them with 
more zeal and energy, to spread the gospel w^hich is 
able to save to the uttermost. So he must try some 
other way. 



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This time he comes around with an argument on 
this order: "Don't be too hard on the poor sinner^ 
use more love, more charity and win ihim by de- 
grees. ' ' 

Now to one who is unacquainted with the wiles of 
the evil one this would sound real plausi'ble. In- 
deed 'he iwould begin to reason something like this : 
"Perhaps I am too hard on them, perhaps such and 
such an one might have been won had I pursued this 
course." Ah, 'how subtle the devil is! He comes 
now as an angel of light. 

So this man who falls in with the devil's senti- 
ments forgets that literal human love never reaches 
the sinner. It is perfect love, the love that comes 
from God "that makes his ministers a flame of fire" 
(Heb. 1:7), that causes them to use the two-edged 
sword with all its keenness (Heb. 4:12), that gives 
them holy boldness that will tell the sinner of his 
danger as Daniel, Nathan, Jesus, John the Baptist, 
Stephen and Paul and a host of others who caused 
sinners to tremble and kings to quake. 

It is perfect love that causes men and women to 
leave comfortable homes, friends and native land to 
give the warning cry to those sitting in darkness, 
feeling the awful responsibility of preaching a full 
gospel and declaring the whole counsel of Grod. 

May Ood open our eyes and help us see whether 
or not we are following the injunction given to Jer- 
emialh, "See, I :have this day set thee over the na- 
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down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build 
and to plant." 

' ' Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise speak 
unto them all that I command thee : be not dismayed 
at their faces, lest I confound thee hefore them. ' ' 

God never can, or will, or does, build and plant 
upon the rubbish of the devil, unbelief, sin, worldli- 
ness, tcarnaiity, holiness fighting, all must be cleared 
away, and w^ho is to do it ? 

The Holy Grhost does his share. Instead of smooth- 
ing over things and whitewashing hearts as black 
as night, he brings up their sins in such a mountain- 
like heap, so black and threatening, that they feel 
like the most wicked ones in all the world. He 
brings hell before them in such a vivid picture that 
they imagine they smell the very smoke and brim- 
stone of the pit. He brings the awful judgments of 
God upon the impenitent sinner so clearly before 
him that in many eases he can neither eat nor sleep, 
but cries continually, ''Lord have mercy on me,'^ 
until God in his infinite love and mercj' lifts the load 
amd sets him free. 

Shall we be more lenient than the Holy Ghost, 
w^ho knows best how to deal with wayward ones? 
Shall we elaim more wisdom than He? 

Then look at the word of God. Shall we make it 
la blunt instrument, which only knocks off the edge 
of sin, or euts off the top of the evil tree, when it 
should be a, two-edged sword cutting out root and 
branch ? 



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<jrod's word says, '''Cry aloud, and spare not." 
*'Woe to 'him that says peace, peace, when there is 
no peace!" "Contend earnes.tly for the faith once 
delivered unto the saints. ' ' Paul said he ceased not 
to warn them, ni^ht and day with strong erying and 
tears. Can we do better than he in another way ? 

Thus perfect love is willing to inflict wounds which 
lead to perfect cure, but human love would rather 
spare the present pain and let the soul be forever 
lost ; rather than hurt their feelings, they would see 
them go unwarned to hell. 

So the devil works on his human sympathy, gets 
(him to lean on his own understanding, in that way 
getting his eyes off of Jesus, gradually but surely 
losifug power by giving place to the devil, so that in- 
stead of words of warning for the sinner who is has- 
tening to his doom, perhaps only a few days left in 
which to make his peace with God, he lets him slip 
through his fingers into hell. 

Instead of urging and pleading v\^ith believers to 
go on to perfection and become wholly sanctified, 
where they are established, and can grow in grace, 
so they in turn can do their part in the salvation of 
souls from eternal burning, he holds from them v/hat 
is their due, feeding tihem milk instead of meat, keep- 
ing them in a weak, baby condition easily captivated 
again Iby the evil one, still professing to be folowers 
of Jesus, while their works and lives do not show ho- 
liness, thus bringing disgrace on the cause. 

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lies. ''Tou will scare them away if you preach 
sanctification. " 

The truly justified soul pants after holiness. He 
has had a taste of joy, but he wants fulness of joy; 
he has peace at times, but he w^ants the peace which 
passeth understanding, which flows like a river and 
never leaves ; he has love, but he wants perfect love. 
Jesus comes to him again and again, but he wants 
Him to be an abiding member 'of his household, the 
full Controller of all his ^affairs, the Ruler upon the 
throne of his heart. Shall we deny these hungry 
souls for which J esus died, the very thing he died to 
o'btain for them? ''Wherefore Jesus also that he 
might sanctify the people with his own blood suffer- 
ed without the gate." (Heb. 13:12.) 

Then there are others who are not taught that un- 
less they have on the wedding garment of sanctifica- 
tion they are not ready to meet the heavenly Bride- 
groom when He comes. They realize that they 
would rather shun the topic, that instead of standing 
on tip-toe, longing and praying for Him to come, they 
would rather put it off to some future time, not 
knov/ing that only unto those who look for him vdll 
he come the second time without sin unto salvation. 
How necessary then it is for God's ministers to warn 
and urge them to their duty and privilege lest Jesus 
come and they are left behind to deride us for our 
negligence in declaring the whole counsel of God. 

The holy church is the bride of Christ, and in Eph. 
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and gave himself for it ; that he might sanctify and 
deanse it with the washing of water -by the word: 
That 'he might present it to himself a glorious church 
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but 
that it should be holy and without blemish." 

But the one who listens to the evil one fails to see 
the beauty in leading souls into full liberty. Ah, he 
is so blinded that, like a wrecked vessel on t>he sandy 
reef, cast aside as useless, the Holy Ghost has ceased 
to use him. Thus shorn of power, he is like an en- 
gine on the track, everything in order, but no 
steam, consequently only a blockade in an- 
other's way. Preaching a milk and water salvation, 
arousing no sinners, singing believers to sleep, throw- 
ing a cloak of safety over the backslider and hypo- 
crite, having the form but denying the power, one 
of the lukewarm ones of which Jesus said, ''I will 
spew them out of my mouth." This is tame holi- 
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CHAPTER XVII. 

Some Reasons Why We Cannot Go With the World. 

The friendship of the world is enmity with God 
James 4:4. 

We are going up, they down. We walk iii the 
narrow path, they the broad. We love God, tliey the 
devil. We love holiness, they sin. We give all we 
can, they get all they can. We do not court praise 
of men, they seek it. We have mansions in heaven, 
they on earth. We eat manna, they hnsks. We 
drink the water of life, they drink whiskey. We 
weep if or the lost, they kick them farther dawm. We 
set our 'affections on things above, they on the earth. 
We expect to live forever, they expect to die like a 
cow. We love our enemies, they hate their holiness 
friends. We love the Bible, they the newspaper. 
We love the prayer meeting, they the dance. We 
hate the dance, they hate the prayer meeting. We 
hate siu, they hate holiness. We love the light, they 
the dark. We love the saints, they hate the saints. 
We are going up stream, they down. We care for 
the soul, they for the body. We live by laiih, they 
by sight. We feast the soul, they the stomach. We 
see great value in souls, they in fullblooded stock. 
We love to learn, they to teach. We are peaceful, 
they are quarrelsome. We let God fight for uf^,, they 
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ness, they iiellish noise. We expect to shine in heav- 
en, they in this world. We covet the smile 
of 'G-od; they the smile of the world. We 
do not care for the last word, they do. 
We are sane, they are insane. We are sober-minded, 
they are intoxicated. We are safe, they in great 
danger. We weep for joy, they for sorrow. Wo see 
afar off, they are nearsighted. Wo are alive, they 
are dead in trespasses and sin. We wish to make 
our mark in Heaven, they in the world. W e <ire 
eternity folks, they live only for time. We have 
peace passing all understanding, they have unrest, 
passing all understanding. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 
Spurious Religion. 

There are many religions in the world. Paul said 
to the Greeks at Athens: "I perceive ye are very re- 
ligious," R. v., and yet we know they were idolaters, 
and had anything but the true religion. But com- 
ing close home, in our own gospel enlightened coun- 
try, how many poor, deluded souls are traveling the 
downward way, while all the time they try to make 
themselves believe they are on the right road. 

Well, what is any religion for? In all ages, men 
believed in some after existence after death. They 
also realized their unfitness for such a place, and 
also their need of a counselor and guide in this life. 
'Consequently the^^, not having been taught the true 
way, followed their own deluded imaginations, aided 
by Satan, setting up gods of wood and stone, thus ex- 
pressing their idea of a religion; others worshiped 
the sun, moon and stars and such created beings as 
the cow, snake, etc., showing in every instance that 
nature teaches that there is a God who deserves our 
praise, wishes to counsel and guide us, and has pre- 
pared a place for the being after the parting of this 
life. 

Now, while it se^ms there is manifested in every 
one a tendency to some religion, (and Satan is ever 
on hand with all sorts, so you can try on, as a gar- 



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ment, the one that fits you best and wear it for all 
he cares), why, in our enlightened country, are there 
not more who embrace the true religion? Ah, one 
reason is that instead of cutting down some religion 
to fit US, we must be cut down to fit the religion. Well 
quoted was the remark I heard a good sister make 
some time ago, ''The armor of God will never fit the 
old carnal man; he is too big, 'and should he try to 
put it on, he would show through the cracks and Sa- 
tan 's arrows would surely find a lodgment. ' ' 

In the next place there are so few who are willing 
to preadh the true cutting down process. They know 
it 'hunts, and it is a most unpopular way, an-! they 
would rather make it a little easier for their ilock; 
'Consequently thousands of souls sink into hell, not 
dreaming that to be their destination until they are 
there, and it is too late to maike amends. 

But ihow are we to know wheth^^r or not we have 
the true religion? If you s'hould go to th.3 orchard 
and see a tree covered with beautiial leaves, bearing 
a great harvest of fruit, free from bugs and vermin, 
you would say, ''That tree is all right. It is not 
lonly in a grand condition now, but is growing."' 
Then you look at another tree, half of the leaves are 
dried and falling off, the other half are wilting, there 
is no fruit and the trunk is covered with vermin. 
That tree is ibacksliding. Once dt was green and 
flourishing as the abundance of leaves show, but now 
it is casting off its leaves and we all know the end of 
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There is no backslider's iieaven. The road to heav- 
en is onward and upward ; backsliders go backward 
and downward, which leads to eternal doom. Many, 
^When you ask them, "Are you saved?" will answer, 
"I was converted at such and such a time," or "I 
hope so ; I think I am. ' ' 

Oh, why will people stop short of a "know so" 
salvation? Why will they trifle wdth the greatest 
question of their lives ? Oh, how they will reproach 
themselves at the last day! How little and mean 
will the opinions of men, the applause of the world, 
the wishes of (their friends seem to them then ! Now 
they seem like impassable mountains, magnified by 
the devil; then they will seem as vapor w^hich has 
passed away, and left them to their doom. It mat- 
ters not when you were converted. Are you justi- 
fied before God now? Have you been walking in all 
the light Ood 'gave you? Rememher, to use the light 
you have will open a channel for more, but to reject 
light is to shut off the current already on. 

If you are still justified, if you love God, and love 
his word, love to talk of heavenly things, love to 
■commune with God, hate sin and shrink from evil, 
praying daily to be guided along the true way to 
glory, you are nearing your Kadesh-Barnea. Re- 
member that is a station along your route. You ean 
not step over it, you cannot go around it, it means 
either forward or backward. Ah, dear one, have 
you ever reached your Kadesh-Barnea? Did you enter 
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back into the wilderness? Brother Ejiupp in his 
book, "Out of Egypt Into Canaan," says, ''The Sinai 
Wildnerness must not be confounded with the Desert 
Wilderness." The Sinai Wilderness is the justified 
■experience, the beginning the Red Sea, the ending 
Canaan land, and can only be traveled as long as 
you do not reach Kadesh-Bamea, wfhich, spiritually, 
you reach as soon as sanctific'ation is preached, and 
made elear to you, for it is your duty to look into the 
matter and pray for light, hut if you re- 
ject the light and do not care to look 
into it, you turn from your Kadesh-Bamea into the 
Desert Wilderness, or backsliders ' wilderness, which 
we have said before leads backward and downward 
thence to hell, unless you repent, do tihe first works, 
and then are willing to pass over your Jordan into 
Canaan. 

Brother Reese saj^s, ''If you 'are not right with 
G-od, and you attempt to pray for the Lord's coming, 
the prayer will choke you. ' ' 

Oh, dear one, examine yourself w^hether or not you 
are in the faith, for every day that passes over your 
head, and it is not attended to, wiill rise up in the 
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CHAPTER XIX. 
The Additions in Sanctification. 

Of course, it is grand to have an experience of 
one's 'OWn, whereto sanctification has 'been added 
power, ihe Holy Grhost, who is the Comforter, heart 
purity and all the fruits of the Spirit which are 
peace, joy, love, patience, long-suffering and last, but 
not least, a determination to go through with Jesus 
no matter what the c ost. But ail this is only person- 
al experience and not accepted only on a scriptural 
basis. So I will try and see if the good book does 
not bear mc out in my own experience. 

In the first place as I write a great reverence and 
awe comes into my heart as I think of how careful, 
how jealous, yea, how exacting God is with this 
glorious hoon to mankind. Just let a man, all aglow 
with the love of G-od, clean hands and a pure heart 
filled with the blessed Holy Ghost, who could preach, 
''holiness or hell," with such power that saints had 
to stretch themselves in order to measure up, and got 
to shouting over the glorious privileges and possi- 
bilities of the blessed land which they possess, just 
let such an one compromise a little (it doesn't take 
mxuch), land see him cool down on the subject of 
sanctification, his messages won't be those delicious 
loaves fresh from Father's hands; his vrords, once 
dripping with unction, are now dry and raspy, and, 



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finally all he can preach is repentan'ce, restitution, 
confession and hell to the sinner, and the little lambs 
(converted ones) must starve, and the sheep (san<jti- 
fied ones) seek other pasture. 

So dear reader, whenever you find yourself belit- 
tling the glorious experience of sanctification, letting 
down the reins, be careful, for God is getting ready 
to give your commission to another, even if he has to 
reach down in the slums and pick up one of the low- 
est, save and sanctify him, and set him agoing for 
him. Oh, glory to Grod for the mystery which hath 
been hid from ages and from generations, but now is 
made manif est to the saints ! 

It is a strange fact that no matter how much one 
studies the subject of sanctification, he cannot un- 
derstand it until he himself receives the blessing. 
God will not entrust a man with the Holy Ghost 
until he has died out so completely to himself that he 
wall only be an instrument in the hands of the Holy 
Ghost to be used at his own good pleasure, and if 
he compromises (for he is still a free moral agent, 
God has no machines), the Holy Ghost soon vacates 
and seeks another who is dead enough to be used for 
God's glory and not his own. 

Justifi-cation is a grand work, embracing pardon, 
regeneration, or being born from above, peace with 
God, which of course brings joy in a measure, con- 
fidence and trust, but whatever a merely justified 
person attempts to do there is mixed up in it God 
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a 'W'hole heart, but 'he finds another one who also 
elaims to be master lof the situation, which is self, 
and between the two there is continual war, and one 
or the other is sure to win. If self is handed over to 
€rod for crucifixion. Gal. 5 :24, Ood will have full 
control, but if self is allowed to live, it won't be long 
until all spiritual life is dead although the person 
may still go on professing. 

Yes, conversion makes a friend out of a rebel, a 
child out of an ialien, it brings the dead in trespasses 
and sin to life, and for a while gives the person pow- 
er over sin, but in the tests which must come sooner 
or later they will fall unless they go through to 
sanctification and get rid of the old enemy in the 
camrp, the self life or carnal mind which, as I heard 
a brother say recently, always has feelers out to see 
if some one isn't talking about it, or what people 
are thinking ahout it. You know carnality thinks 
iitself so important that it imagines that people are 
always talking about it, and if they do talk about it, 
then it is hurt, and if they don't talk about it then 
it is hurt. It is that thing that is always getting 
mad, is peevish, cross, and lalways wants the best of 
everything, hates to take the lowest seat, and is any- 
thing but humble, and when it wants to be the most 
humble is sure to be proud over its own humility. 
Oh, how glad I am that God m^ade a way for its cru- 
cifixion, and how glad I am I was willing to have it 
crucified ! Gal. 2 :20 ; Rom. 6 :6. The Bible says that 
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to the law of God, neither, dndeed, can be, and yet 
there are men who preach we must keep it down, and 
that we must icarry it to our graves ! God help them 
hefore it is to'o late to have it crucified and not have 
it carry them to hell. Rom. 6 :21. That is wihy justi- 
fication 'hasn't perfect peace, and joy and all these 
other good things that are added in sanctification, 
and that is why no one must stop at justification but 
go straight through to the gloriious freedom, liberty, 
power and blessing of sanctification, which is the 
'baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost as He 
comes, purifies and fills. If He didn't fill as fast as 
He cleanses there would ibe evil spirits ready to enter 
and mar the work, but God takes care of that and 
fills as He cleanses, and makes room for Himslef. 

There is a doctrine abroad in our land that all 
there is to get, one gets in justification, that sanctifi- 
cation simply takes away that, that would hinder 
one living a fully justified life, but wherever I have 
come across such people that advocate this doctrine, 
they have been compromisers, and not having the 
full approval of God upon them, they are blinded hy 
the evil one and their spiritual eyesight crippled, 
therefore, making them less useful as soul winners 
or rightly dividing the word of truth. 

Now if we can prove that the Hol}^ Ghost is given 
only in sanctification, then the doctrine of which we 
have just spoken will speak its own destruction. 
Jesus said unless a grain of wheat fall in the ground 
and die, it abideth alone. Sinners are tares and not 



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wheat. Tliey must be changed into wheat b}^ divine 
power (conversion) and then, when they fall into 
the ground and die (sanctification), ^they will then 
only bear fruit, which remains. Conversi'on is the 
seed, sanctification is the blade, then the stalk, then 
the full ear on the stalk, showing how we can grow 
in grace when we ^are once in grace. Another illus- 
tration is, conversion is the foundation, and sanctifi- 
'cation is the grand structure built thereon. Of 
oourse, without the foundatdon the house could not 
be built, but on the other hand the foundation does 
no one any good until a house is on it. 

The disciples, v/e know, were converted before 
Pentecost because Jesus said their names were writ- 
ten in heaven, Luke 10:20, and He told them they 
were chosen out of the world, and for that reason 
the world hated them, John 15 :19, but we find that 
they were not yet in possession of the Holy G-host, 
for we read in John 14:16, 17, "And I will pray the 
Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that 
He may abide with you forever." 

''Even the Spirit of Truth ; whom the world cannot 
receive because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth 
Him." 

Acts 2 :38 : Then Peter said unto them, repent, and 
be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus 
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive 
the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

' ' For the promise is unto you land to your children, 
and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord 
our Grod shall call." 



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T'hu8 we see the gift of the iblessed Holy Ghost is 
for every one who has repented of his sins, w^ho be- 
lieves on the Lord Jesus Christ, «and if we receive 
Him in sanc'tification, then I think we 'have a great 
deal added to us in sanctification, for wihen we ihave 
the Blesser in our 'hearts we ihave all the blessings. 
Glory to his precious name. 

"Since the Comforter has come 
Heaven has 'begun with me, 
I am satisfied and free. 
Since the Comforter has come." 

Dear reader, are you satisfied and free? Is there 
a hungering and thirsting after righteousness in your 
soul ? God can give you a satisfying portion. Glo- 
ry to his name. He will lead you into green past- 
ures, beside the still waters, and your meat will be 
manna from heaven, and 'honey out of the rock. The 
rock of the Most High will be your hiding place and 
you will abide under the shadow of His wings. 

Oh, I am so glad I opened my heart for the in- 
dwelliDg of the blessed Holy Ghost. Today I am 
fully abandoned to His will and He leads me into all 
truth, floods my soul with glory indescribable, and 
keeps me running up the shining way, and I know 
some day, if I keep low at His feet He will bring me 
safely within the pearly gates, there to praise Him 
forever and ever. 



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CHAPTER XX. 
Pride. 

"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto 
the humble." Jas. 4:6. 

Wih'at an abominable t'hing pride is ; and yet every 
Tinsaved person is guiltj^ of it in one form lor another. 
Tihe justified feel its uprisings; and the sanctified 
must watch and (pray continually lest it creep in un- 
^awares. 

The poor as well as the rich are afflicted with this 
disease. I remember of a very poor family that 
lived quite close to us, whose ohildren went to school 
quite thinly clad. Other children taking pity on 
them, told their parents about it, and they fixed up 
quite a large bundle of good, warm clothing. "What 
was their surprise, when they found the ^bundle re- 
turned with the proud message, ''We are able to 
take 'care of our own kids." 

Such is human nature. Rather would w^e suffer 
the pangs of hunger, and endure the 'biting cold, 
than to be objects of charity, when we are, all of us 
rich land poor, the greatest objects of charity this 
world is burdened wdth. The animals can get alone' 
with a great deal less than we can, but what would 
all of us do if God withheld the rain, the sunshine, 
and countless blessings which He so freely showers 
down upon ns, and which we could not get akp ' 
without? 



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How foolisih the people of this world must appear 
to the angels, wibo hehoid the greatness and good- 
ness of Grod, to see how the people lof this world re- 
ject God, how they hold up their heads in proud de- 
finance and arrogance, how utterly Uhey ignore Wi> 
goodness, and even do all in their 'power to destroy 
what little faith others have in Him! No wonde 
before God mn deal with a soul, many times He must 
break the iron will and proud spirit, and melt the 
frozen 'heart iby repeated failures, losses, disasters, on 
every hand until, humiliated again and again, they 
finally throw down all their pride, throw up their 
'hands, and surrender to God. 

If human pride is bad, spiritual pride is worse. 
If we are dependent on God in temporal things, we 
are more so in spiritual things, and to take the least 
glory to ourselves is the greatest of pride and the 
lowest of thieving. I used to hear of a woman in a 
certain town who used to get up in prayer meeting 
and bemoan her weakness in faith. A kind old broth- 
er, who knew the remedy for spiritual weakness, 
spoke to her one evening after service, and told her 
he knew how she might become strong if she wished. 
She turned on him quite furiously and said, "Who 
told you I was weak?" She had taken that form 
of testimony only as a eloak of humility, and when 
the cloak was lifted, pride was there just the same. 

It lis pride that keeps many out of the kingdom. 
They know they must confess and straighten up their 
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rather go to hell and suffer eternal damnation than 
bear a little reproach here. 

It is pride that keeps many a young convert from 
testifying and praying in public. They are afraid 
they will make a mistake and eause people to laugh 
at them, when if they were in the school room, they 
could recite a long lesson with perfect composure 
and never think it strange even if they made some 
mistakes. 

Even some of our best evangelists are not entirely 
free from this awful malady. If they can't lead, 
they won't do anything at all. They scorn small 
compensations, and small towns are beneath their 
dignity. Ah, it is the very poison of hell! Some- 
how the very air we breathe, spiritually speaking, is 
saturated with it. It clamors for a place at every 
turn, and nothing escapes its notice. 

The thief prides himself on his accumulated booty 
and his successful escapes from the officers. The 
president of the Ladies' Aid prides herself on baking 
the greatest num'ber of cakes the past year for the 
different socials and church fandangos, never failing 
to watch for >an opportunity to tell it, although the 
ministers had already aired it well. 

What la relief it will be when we get to Heaven, 
never again to meet this wily foe in others, or trying 
to enter our own hearts ! What a glorious privilege 
to praise and adore Him whom our soul loveth for- 
ever and ever, without a shadow or tinge of pride 
lurking near! Does Jesus always, everywhere, all 
the time get all the glory? 



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CHAPTER XXI. 
Humility. 

"Be clothed with humility." I. Peter 5:5. 

What a wonderful garment ! It must cover head, 
feet and all; and the heart, soul, tongue and mind 
must also be included. Some have tried to clothe the 
'body in humble attire, but they forgot their minds 
and tongues, 'because they had vain thoughts, 'and it 
cropped out of their conversation, ipolluting the heart 
and soul. Then there are others w^ho claim to be 
sanctdned, who claim to be hximble in \heart and soul, 
but they still adorn their bodies with gold and costly 
array. 

How beautiful to see a man or woman really cloth- 
ed in humility ! There is no uneasiness in their man- 
ner. They are not anxious to show off, to be consid- 
ered witty and smart ; they expect no favors, 'are sat- 
islfied with everything, do notfight for their rights, 
are not on display. They S'how their interest in an- 
other's advancement, study to please others,, are not 
always getting their feelings hurt, and give due re- 
spect ito the feelings of others. 

Their bodily adornment is strictly within their 
means ; never loud or sucih that would attract atten- 
tion, either for elegance or a^bsolute plainness. They 
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over fashion plates, and read Grod's word more than 
they spend time before the looking glass. However, 
there is still a deeper hnmility than that, the sense 
of utter helplessness and ntter dependence on God. 
There is nothing that so humiliates the proud as to 'be 
suddenly made dependent on some one else. The 
ambition of every worldly-minded person is to be in- 
dependent in money, health, etc., and so the most 
humhle child of God, is the one who feels most keen- 
ly his utter dependence on Him, who sees his own 
uniworthiness, and realizes his utter inability to ac- 
complish anything by fhis own strength. Such an 
one will always everywhere give all the glory to God 
and never feel he is slighted or overlooked, but be 
thankful for the smallest blessing and thank God 
that he is permitted even a small corner in His vine- 
yard. As God continues to use and ble^s him he 
still remembers that Jesus said, ''Without me ye can 
do nothing," and instead of depending on his suc- 
cess and reputation, he still lives much in his secret 
closet, alone with Jesus, realizing with success comes 
danger, and walks more softly than ever, and lis- 
tens still closer to hear the Master's voice, and leans 
harder than ever on that strong arm that never fails. 
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CHAPTER XXII. 
Grace. 

What is grace? It is something without wihich we 
could never reach Heaven. It is something manu- 
factured in Heaven, and must he obtained directly 
from there, for heaven controls the entire output. 
There are different sizes and qualities of goo'ds, but 
they always fit and always last as long as needed. 
It is manufaotured from a strange mixture of cour- 
age, patience, love, determination and suffering. It 
will fit any ease, and there is an dnexihaustible sup- 
ply. Glory to God! For He lis able to make all 
grace aibound toward you. Hallelujah ! 

It takes grace to love the unlovely. Before we 
were saved we jeered at the poor drunken object 
zigzagging his way down the street. When we met 
a poor fallen girl we g^athered our skirts about us, 
and crossed to the other side of the street. The beg- 
(gar was iturned unmercifully from our door, and the 
little ragged newsboy was passed unnoticed. But 
what a change when the real love ol God is shed 
abroad in our hearts ! How we love to help the help- 
less, no matter (how uncouth the exterior may be ! 
Bro. Reese tells of a couple of his missionaries going 
to an upper room in an attic one dismal cold nig^ht, 
and watching beside the deathbed of a poor, wretch- 
ed, fallen girl. The bed was a mass of filth, the room 



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presented an appearance of the most abject poverty, 
and tlie huge rats ran to and fro everywhere, over 
the bed and knocking over the medicine bottles. Yet 
those girls filled with the love of God had an abun- 
dance 'of that grace that gave them courage, love, 
and determination that dreadful night. What won- 
derful grace those rescue w^orkers must have that go 
into the deepest hell holes in search of precious souls! 
God hless them a hundred fold ! Then the matrons 
of our rescue homes and orphanages. How they 
need grace in the daily perplexities that comfort 
such a life ! Some girls and children come who are 
addicted to stealing and telling lies, yet they must 
be loved and led to Jesus Who never turns one away 
no matter how filthy the soul or body may be, bless 
His precious holy name forever! Oh. I love Him 
with lall my heart this morning ! 

Then it takes grace to stay iwhere one is misunder- 
stood, miisrepresented, unloved and not wanted. 
Those who have read Madame Guyon's life can ap- 
preciate what she went through during her Christian 
experience, but glory to God, it only made her sweet- 
er and more lovely in spirit, 'and w^hen God called 
her h?me she enjoyed the peace and joy of heaven 
in a much greater degree than she ever could have^ 
had she not had such a hard time here below. 

The martyrs of the early days had wonderful 
grace. They were able to sing songs of praise and 
victory when burned at the stake, or thrown to the 
wild beasts. It is told of one man that was put up- 



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on the rack, that after they had tortured him so 
long, they became weary 'and took him loff. He turn- 
ed to them and said, ' ' Oh, what did you do that for ? 
All the time I was on the rack an angel stood by my 
side and wiped the perspiration from my face ! ' ' 

Then we need grace to raise our children in the 
nurture land admonition of the Lord. Indeed, here 
is where much grace is consumed, but thank God, it 
never runs dry. With lall their little puzzling trials 
and difficulties, mothers must have grace ; 'and when 
the first sign of anger shoiws itself, or the first false- 
hood is told, it takes grace to give the first punish- 
ment. But it must be done. One lady said to an- 
other, "I thought sanctified folks didn't whip their 
children." The other lady replied, ^'Before I was 
sanctified I didn't, but now I do." Yes, thank Ood, 
we can whip our children when they need it, with 
love in our souls, not the least bit angry, but deter- 
mined that they must 'be conquered and controlled. 

Space would fail to tell of all of the 'places where 
grace is needed. There is scarcely an hour passes 
in the day but what real grace is necessary; when 
the meat is burned, the dinner late, some one fails, 
to keep a promise, the wash line breaks, or sickness 
comes. But in every walk oi life, the true child of 
Ood knows where to get an abund-ance of grace. 

Grace is a wonderful thing. Some folks think 
they have grace, when by their own strong will and 
determination, grit their teeth and hear it. That is 
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4 

under strict quarantine; can go out and see no odc- 
and no one can come into the house to see me. A 
kind sister ibrings the mail; I have a telephone in 
the house, ^a little boy is hired to bring the milk, so 
all my needs are supplied. Husband is away hold 
ing meetings, and has been g^one nearly two weeks. 
Before I was sanctified if I had been in like circum- 
stances, I would have chafed under my imprison- 
ment, and would have thought it my husband's place 
to be at 'home with his family. But glory to J esus ! 
He keeps me in perfect peace. Nothing gives me 
more joy than to know that it is possible for husbana 
to be out in the work of the Lord. There is no 
chafing, the edge of the restraints are taken off, and 
I haven't even the least desire to go out, do not even 
realize my confinement. That is real grace. Praise 
the Lord ! And it is possible in every trial of life ; 
even wlhen we stand around the death bed of our 
loved 'Ones. Olory to God ! 

Blood to wash my every sin away, 
Poiwer to keep me sinless day by day, 
Grace to keep me sweetly all the way. 
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CHAPTER XXIII. 
Best. 

Rest! Can anyone define this word? Only four 
letters, but how much they embrace ! Rest is some- 
thing to which this iworld is a stranger as far as 
bodily rest is concerned, and that is something every 
one is seeking for. The tired farmer, weary book- 
keeper, almost distracted clerk, faint mother, over- 
worked factory girl, all retire at night with the one 
hope, rest. But do they rest? Just that day the 
farmer's best horse died, and try as he will he can 
not sleep; the bookkeeper has a violent headache, 
and of course can't rest; the clerk is so 'over-tired 
when he does sleep, that it is a troubled slumber; 
the faint mother arises ever and anon to see if this 
little one is covered, if there is too much draft from 
the window, or what Rover is barking so loudly 
about; the over-worked factory girl 'per*haps sleeps 
quicker than all the rest, but when she is sleeping 
best the alarm clock rings and she must arise and 
igo to work. 

The office girl has worked hard all winter, now 
she is off for a rest; she says, it is her mind that 
needs rest more than her body, so she goes to a sum- 
mer resort where there is bathing, boating, etc. She 
is fairly settled wlien a telegram announces, ''Moth- 
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in the laundry for two years without a lay off says 
she needs a rest, and ^goes to the mountains, where 
everything is quiet. The first day she takes a book 
out to the hammock under the trees, expecting a 
lovely time all to herself, wihen suddenly one of those 
terrific, sudden mountain storms break over her 
head and she must retire to the house in a hurry. 
Perhaps you think I am painting the dark side of 
this picture, but I have only mentioned everyday oc- 
currences. Just look around and see the unhappy 
faces, the restless masses that go to and fro, even the 
restlessness of animals and nature and you must 
agree that rest is foreign to this iworld. Real rest 
must be a season of undisturbed quiet from fears, 
burdens, hurry, worry, pain, sorrow, and which, 
when realized, must be free from the very thought 
of any of these disturbing elements returning. 

Deatli, if entered into the same as things without 
an immortal soul, an utterly uneonscious state, would 
be the only rest this world would ever find. How 
miany, blinded by the devil and goaded on by his 
merciless lash, have sought refuge and rest in death. 
But alas ! alas ! what a ddusion ! "What they ex- 
pected would be rest was ten million times v%-orse 
than any lack of rest they ever found in this world. 
Rest for the soul is even harder to find than rest 
for the body, if one looks for it in this -world. It has 
ajbsolutely no rest at all to offer for the soul. Wheji 
I was a girl I often wondered if there was not some 
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never came; and when I had to acknowledge there 
was none, but that death was on everybody's track, 
and whether one was ready or not we all had to die 
some time, it made me tremble and resolve to be 
ready when death came. 

While there is no rest for the 'body in this world, 
and no rest for the soul in this world, yet thank God 
there is real rest for the soul in Jesus. Oh, the lux- 
ury of being dead to the world with all its cares, 
strifes, disappointments, worryings and frettings, 
and being alive unto Grod! Yet this is possible. 
Ol'ory to Jesus! Jesus would never have said, 
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest," if rest could have 
been found anywhere else, but He knew there was 
only one way to bring rest to this sin-tossed world, 
and He gave His life to make that way. Bless His 
name forever! 

When the sinner finds himself a lost soul, on a bee- 
line for hell, and comes to God penitent, seeking 
salvation, God forgives all ihis sins and takes away 
all the guilt and condemnation, and the newly-born 
soul realizes a rest it never had before. But it isn 't 
long until he finds out that that rest is disturbed 
again and again by unbidden passions arising in his 
soul. Sometimes he can suppress and keep them 
down by much prayer and reading God's word; but 
many times it gets the better of him and he must 
repent and get back to God. How glad such an 
one is when he finds there is complete deliverance 



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for him in the Blood ! He g^oes again to Jesus, con- 
secrates his all to G-od, and by faith in the Blood 
to cleanse out this dark something in his soul, looks 
up to Jesus, who sanctifies him wholly. Now he has 
perfect rest. Jesus is his all in all ; and !because Je- 
sus is never ^hurried, is never fretting, is always on 
time, never disappoints, he is always in perfect peace 
because his eyes are on Jesus. You watch the little 
baby on mother's lap. As long as mother is calm 
and peaceful, baby is too, 'but as soon as mother sees 
danger, or weeps or seems worried, baby also begins 
to cry and fret. If the house burns down we know 
we have one eternal in the heavens ; if crops fail, we 
know God is still on the throne; if friends forsake 
us, we have a Friend that surpasses all other friends ; 
if bereavement comes, Jesus completely fills the va- 
cancy, so no matter what cross, what calamity, what 
sorrow may beat against the soul, it cannot distur^b 
that wonderful rest deep down in the soul, providing 
that soul is staid on God. 

When this life is over and our weary bodies are 
laid to rest, our rest will be complete in heaven. No 
tormenting fears that when we have spent one day 
or a month, or a year there, that we will have to go 
(back to toil, burdens and fatigue ; but our rest will 
be so complete that not a thought of sorrow will dis- 
turb its tranquility. Let us by all means enter into 
the rest of the people of God here below, and when 
life's journey is over and all our battles fought, lay 
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CHAPTER XXIV. 
Patience. 

There is so mueli need in this world of patience. 
The clerk needs patience when a customer comes in, 
and after showing him every piece of goods on the 
^helf, walks out without buying anything. The 
farmer needs patience when his horses have broken 
down the gate and are away off in the other end of 
the pasture, when he is already a half-hour late get- 
ting started to plow. The mother needs patience 
when the clothes line breaks and a lot of clean 
clothes must be washed over again. Father needs 
patience when dinner is late, and John forgot to get 
the mail. Jessie needs patience when she can't find 
her school books and the bell is ringing. The preach- 
er needs patience when his flock fails to follow all 
his precepts, and his preaching seems to fall on 
stony ground. The teacher needs patience when her 
pupils are seemingly dull, and the room is full of 
emoke. 

Patience is sister to long-suffering, a cousin to 
gentleness, humility, kindness, and love. They usu- 
ally work together ; for where you find one you will 
find the other. Some folks have a patient nature, and 
nothing seems to ruffle them; they take everything 
in a free and easy way, and do not manifest a great 
degree of anger or resentment. However, such peo- 
ple are usually slow in their actions, very deliberate 
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Then there are others who are patient to a fault 
with some loved one, while very impatient with 
others. They can't see any fault in their own children 
and have unbounded patience with their petty peev- 
ishness and noise, whereas they would be very loud 
in their denunciation of such actions in other child- 
ren. How many mothers will peel all the potatoes 
so that daugihter 's beautiful white hands will not get 
stained! How many mothers will patiently wear 
old-fashioned, threadbare clothes in order to see 
their daug'hters dressed in the height of fashion. She 
will patiently make the fire, get breakfast and let 
it stand an hour or two until Jennie finally decides 
to get up, and then instead of being a help to the 
already wornout mother, asks her to be sure and 
have that white dress ironed by 2 o 'clock ! A mar- 
tyr to patience, without any reward! Such is un- 
limited devotion to her idol, who may some day 
trample on her heartstrings, and bring her with gray 
hairs and sorrow to the grave. 

Another kind of patience is exercised iwhen a per- 
son has a certain end in view and is determined to 
succeed. What unlimited patience Edison must 
have had before he perfected many of his wonderful 
inventions in electricity! How many lonely hours 
he spent shut in from everybody; how many, many 
times he would have something almost completed 
when a wrong move, or unwise turn would shatter 
all his hard work of months in a moment ! But this 
patience expects a reward; it is made up of deter- 



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mination to succeed, has too mxicli pride to fail, and 
is praiseworthy in that it tries again and again, of- 
ten against hope, and usually succeeds. 

What 'does ail this patience amount to, compared 
with the patience born from above in the sanctified, 
heart ! Persecuted, reviled, misunderstood, misrep- 
resented, unwelcome, unsonght, yet in return gives 
blessing, love, forbearance, long-suffering, prayers 
and well wislies. It has been tried at the stake, in 
the arena, on the rack, in prison, on the scaffold, and 
always proved to be the genuine article. It has been 
tested on wash day, baking day, scrub day, at 
thrashing time, in the sick room, on eloudy days, in 
sorrow, troulble, adversity, losses, and erosses, and 
came out richer in quality and much increased in 
quantity. 

It has stood the test in long, weary years of almost 
fruitless labor in some hot, sultry clime among the 
heathen. The missionary did not complain when the 
food was coarse and dry and letters from the home- 
land were few and far between; he was at his best 
when the hand of affliction was laid heavy on his 
body and there was no one but the natives to minis- 
ter to his needs. Not a thought of reproach or com- 
plaint, but as he nears the end and knows he will 
soon be home, praises God for the privilege he had 
of working in His vineyard, and with an earnest ap- 
peal to stand true to the few faithful ones left be- 
hind, with a glad shout he crosses over into that land 
where patience will be lost in love and praise. Glory 
to God ! 



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CHAPTER XXV. 
Love. 

There are two kinds of love ; the human and the 
divine. Each of these may ibe separated into two 
classes. 

I 'Once heard of a certain fine yonng man who 
married a very nice girl. They loved each other 
dearly. She, always ready to caress him and greet 
him with a smile of welcome, was lavish in her out- 
ward manifestations of her affection. But alas! 
That was as far as it went. When he would come 
home from his office for ddnner, there was no meal 
in sight, and he had to repair to the restaurant for 
something to eat. She failed to keep the house tidy, 
and there were no little comforts provided for him 
to make the home attractive and pleasant. After 
'bearing patiently with her for several years trying 
to reform her, and finding it a hopeless task, he was 
forced to leave her, much to his own regret. 

We have all seen the other extreme, a woman with 
a decidedly matter-of-fact way of looking at things. 
She had no use for sentimentality. Something sub- 
stantial, or nothing at all, was her motto. Her house 
is like a pin. Meals always on time and cooked to 
perfection. When necessary, could go out in the 
field, help stack hay, shock wheat, or even plow, as 
the case might be. Scorned to ask her husband to 
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her own fires. Long ago John had tried to show his 
appreciation of her fine qualities, by taking her in 
his strong arms in loving embrace, and covering her 
face with kisses, but she always expressed her utter 
disgust at such proceedings, failing to respond in 
the least. At last he gives up that department of do- 
mestic affection, and contents himself with a servant 
for a wife. 

How many times we see this corrdborated in the 
spiritual life. Mary and Martha were true illustra- 
tions of this. There are many Martha's in the 
Lord's service. They have no time for the secret 
closet; to shed tears over the lost is too weak for 
them. They 'believe in matters of fact. Nothing 
is worth doing that does not take physical strength 
and labor. Sitting up until twelve at night to make 
shirts for a lot of children in the orphanage close 
by, or washing dishes after a social until midnight 
are things worth considering. They do not care to 
sit at the feet of Jesus and learn of Him ; they never 
tell Him how much they love Him; that doesn't 
amount to anything. But how He longs to gather 
them up in His arms, and pour into their lives of 
hurry and worry His own peace and joy! "What a 
new vision they would have of real service for Him ! 

Then there are some Marys too. Those that do 
nothing else but long to go to heaven, always weep 
v^^hen the preacher talks about the home over there ; 
always ready to tell what a wonderful Saviour they 
have found, and how they could not live without 



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Him ; but tihey fail to do anything for Him. They 
pmy, ''Oh Lord, supply the needs of the missiona- 
ries, and send the gospel to the heathen, ' ' when they 
have the means in their own pockets to support a 
dozen missionaries and help answer their own pray- 
ers. 

I do not wish to judge the Mary we read about in 
Scripture, but there are some Marys I know about, 
that if there were no Martha's to get supper for Je- 
sus, He would certainly starve. When we look 
around and isee so many professing to love Jesus, and 
so little done in the way of real practical work, we 
must conclude there are more Marys than Marthas. 

Thank God there are a few in whom these two ex- 
tremes are ibeautifully blended. There are some 
homes where the kind word, the loving embrace, the 
little, loving attentions are the woof, and where lov- 
ingj thoughtful, faithful service is the warp of the 
domestic life, to the great satisfaction and comfort 
of all the inmates of that home and all that may 
come under its beautiful influence. 

So it is with a well rounded out 'Christian expe- 
rience. Jesus needs our service, but he longs most 
of all for our whole heart's affection. He is jealous 
for our adoration and praise. He loves to fold us 
closely to His bosom. He wants us to feel our de- 
pendence on Him alone. It is his delight when we 
confide in Him, and bring Him all our perplexities. 
When we do this, be sure the other part will not suf- 
fer, but in loving obedience we will faithfully serve 
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CHAPTER XXVI. 

An Ideal Home. 

There are a few ideal homes in this world. Just 
as surely as there are homes in this world that are 
minature hells, so there are homes that are tiny heav- 
ens. 

First of all, Jesus is always the head of the house 
in an ideal home. He sits at the head of the table, 
is the sulbject of most of the conversation, is always 
consulted in any matters under consideration, is 
honored and revered. Consequently, His divine 
presence pervades the house ; His love permeates the 
atmosphere; His peace 'broods over all. 

This home is a benediction to the saint, and a 
source of conviction to the sinner. Many a way- 
worn traveler finds co'mfort and shelter under its 
hospitable roof. A tramp is never turned away, but 
with a warm meal spread before him he is also re- 
minded that he has a soul to save, and while the 
food for his body is dished out to him, a good supply 
of spiritual food is also provided ; and he goes away 
warmed and fed, and with a warmer place in his 
heart for the One who died to save him. 

What shall I say of the hnsiband and father of this 
home? The one w^ho bears the financial burden? 
Whose 'broad shoulders and ibrawny hands must 
bend and provide bread and fuel and a home with 
all its comforts for the ones he loves more than life? 



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Ah, the big, loving hearts of some of our noble home 
builders! Ho>w fiercely sometimes do tihe winds of 
adversity iblow ! How their faith ds sometimes tried 
to the utermost ! But with unbounded trust in God, 
a determination to go through with Him, with a 
deep longing to be at their best for God, they plow 
through, always cheerful, always hopeful, always 
helpful. They don't lie in 'bed and let wife make 
the morning fires; they don't take full possession 
of the only rocker in the house; they don't fume 
around and complain if the beefsteak is burned ; they 
don't keep all the flowers until the mother of their 
children lies cold and stiff in her coffin; they are 
not ashamed to show her their affection, and feel it 
no descent from their high place of distinction as 
head of the family to wadt on her, and show her 
those little attentions that only a true, good husband 
knows how to bestow. He grants, if possible, her 
every wish and respects her preferences as though 
they were his own. He w^ould rather be in her com- 
pany than any other, be it men or women, and spends 
as much time at her side as his work for the Master 
and other occupations will allow. He revels in no 
secret that she dare not know ; always fully confides 
in her and holds her confidence as a priceless treas- 
ure, and when she advises contrary to hds plans, he 
earefullj^ considers both sides, and either confirms 
his faith in her opinion, or converts her to his own. 
He is careful that she is clothed as well or better than 
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never allows the children to dishonor or undervalue 
their mother, and always teaches them that mother 
must be first in everything and her wishes always 
considered. He never allows her strength to 'be 
overtasked. 

Here comes the wife and mother. There is a soft- 
ness in the lines of her face, a tender light in her 
eye, a bearing at once 'humble and dignified that no 
one else possesses just like her. She has been pol- 
ished and refined by the continual round of duties, 
trials and burdens, and the constant demands made 
upon her patience, love and forbearance has en- 
riched the deposit until one loves to be in 'her pres- 
ence. Her children rise up and call her 'blessed. 
She has learned the lesson so thoroug'hly to always 
trust in Ood that she never worries or frets, is never 
over-anxious. AH husband 's petting has not spoiled 
her, fbut she takes her place faithfully and never 
shirks. Even when hardly able, she insists on per- 
forming her ihousehold duties, and never gives up 
until she can igo no more. She loves to cook those 
things her husband relishes, even if her own taste is 
decidedly contrary ; she strives to please him as much 
as possible ; honors him as the head of the family, 
and if differences arise, is not careful to speak the 
last word; does not cross his wishes, even when it 
means the sacrifice of her own; knows no gossip; 
never betrays her [husband's confidence; always 
keeps her word ; is not afraid to correct her children 
•when necessary, and after they have learned to obey 



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and respect her, she strives to gain their confidence 
and unbounded love; is ready to share their joys 
and sorrovrs, and early teaches them to take their 
little troubles to Jesus, and when they are older they 
will still cling to this plan. She is not wasteful, but 
duly appreciates the fact that the means with which 
she obtains all these things, were earned by the hard 
work of the one she loves ; honors and loves him as 
the only one entitled to her love and affection, and 
is always ready with her sympath}" and cheer- 
fulness to heflp him in every trying circumstance; 
is concerned for his eomfort, and makes the home 
as attractive as possible. 

Where ideal parents exist, there are usually ideal 
children. Their first falsehood received due atten- 
tion ; they learned it was better to control their tem- 
per than lie .on the floor and kick with all their 
might; they were not allowed to answer back and 
never dared to argue the question. When company 
was present, they were taught to be quiet, seen and 
not heard, were not allowed to stand around the ta- 
ble set for a meal and finger the dishes and food. 
They were taught to obey at the first command, this 
taJking a long time, with much patience and deter- 
mination; learn early to wait on themselves, wash 
their hands and face before coming to the table, and 
as soon .as possible were given small tasks to per- 
form, such as carrying in wood and coal, wiping 
dishes, ironing handkerchiefs and towels, sweeping 
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among each other, and to give mp on^ to the other ; 
never allowed to destroy one another's playthings, 
and to respect one another's wishes and preferences; 
never to fight, stri'ke or bite, or use bad words of 
any kind ; and instead of repeating some little verse 
for a prayer that they rattle off by heart with their 
minds everywhere else hut on God, they are taught 
to pray to Him out of their own hearts as they are 
able, even if it is only a few words at first, however, 
they soon learn to pray intelligently and mean what 
they say, and before long, if good religious books 
that are interesting are put into their hands, they 
will feel their need of being saved and sanctified. 
These children respect their elders. 

Out of such a home will go preachers, missiona- 
ries, loyal young men and women, that make good 
citizens and fine Christians. The neighbors nvill be 
sorry to see them move to another location, and the 
town will lose an influence for good that is hard to 
replace. The husband will be known as a man of 
his word ; and business men of all kinds will have 
unbounded confidence in him. The wife will he 
known by her deeds of love and mercy, to the poor 
and sick ; and her presence be a blessing in church 
and prayer service. The children will be so polite 
and considerate of other's wishes and feelings that- 
they will he taken into the society of the most re- 
fined and cultured of the town, w'ho never think of 
dancing, playing cards, attending theatres, or doing 
anything wrong or beneath their standard. 



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Such a home is only gained and maintained by 
wholly consecrated lives, where jealousy, pride, an- 
ger, envy, intemperance, hate and selfishness have 
all ibeen eliminated, and iwihere perfect love, humil- 
ity, long-suffering, patience, kindness, meekness and 
temperance have taken their place. 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 
Change of Scenery. 

Some people get into a rut in their Christian ex- 
periences, and go through the old treadmill round, 
the whole year through. Their prayers are gone 
through with a clock-like regularity, always the 
same length and monotone ; they have made the same 
requests for years, and they would be very much 
surprised if they were answered. In prayer meeting 
they always sit in the same old seat, and their testi- 
mony is known hy heart by everyone in the class. 
An unusually stirring revival will c ause them to rub 
their eyes and wake them up a little, so they may 
even say "Amen" occasionally, and a little more 
praise is mixed in their prayers and testimonies on 
account of God manifesting his presence in the revi- 
val, for which they prayed so long and in which they 
had so much faith. 

But after a few wrecks they are asleep again. Af- 
t€r family worship, spiritual things are never men^ 
tioned again, as thoug^h G-od were a heathen idol to 
be forgotten after worship. When they wish to 
move to another city they never think of consulting 
God about such a trifling matter as that, their only 
consideration is the money proposition, the climate, 
etc. Even a Methodist minister who was staying 
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once or twice a day, when we told him we some- 
times prayed five times a day. This same man said 
in a sermon before his congregation, that he would 
rather shake hands with a saloon (keeper than with 
the holiness people. I am afraid he will have to 
learn to shake hands with them here, if he ever ex- 
pects to shake hands at all in heaven. 

How different is the life of a truly sanctified soul ! 
They are truly on a journey, and the scenery is ever 
varying. Today they are climbing the steep moun- 
tain side of difficulty ; tomorrow they will bask in the 
sunshine of the mountain top of faith. This week 
their testimony is a ringing witness of God's power 
to save, sanctify and keep ; next week they have heen 
tried and tested, and came through more than con- 
querors. Glory to God ! This week the devil comes 
with new plans, all laid out carefully for their de- 
struction; they fed the enemy's breath right in their 
faces; the heavens seem like brass, and even God 
seems to have hidden His face ! One calamity upon 
another comes ; they are pressed from every side ; it 
seems to them they are in a vice and they can feel 
the pressure tightening every day! It is one of 
tihose prolonged seasons of testing when their pa- 
tience, love, faith, long-suffering, hope and trust are 
tried to the utmost. It is that part of the journey 
which lies along narrow ledges, across deep chasms. 
The sky is overshadowed hy heavy clouds, the light- 
ning flashes and discloses dangerous pitfalls. There 
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imean death, nothing to do but go forward, trusting 
the Guide who can not be seen, ibut heard ever and 
anon saying, ''This is the way; walk ye in it." 

But glory to Jesus! Just when the last 'bit of 
strength seems gone, the last ray of hope is fading 
away, Jesus steps in ! Lo ! In a moment the clouds 
are gone, the sun shines, the birds sing! There is 
once more a sure footing beneath our feet, the trees 
and flowers are lining our pathway, and we go on 
rejoicing with songs of joy on our lips! 

All that week it seems so easy to believe. We 
feel the presence of Jesus so real, precious and abid- 
ing. Our hearts are continually overflowing with 
praise. It seems like heaven below our Jesus to 
know. Our prayers seem to take hold of God with 
a mighty grip, faith grows and expands, notching 
seems too hard to undertake for God. Testimonies 
are in the spirit, everything seems to go with a swing 
of victory. 

Then, here comes another turn in the road, dis- 
closing scenery we never saw ibefore. The road 
seems to be so entirely new, we question whether we 
are in the right road or not. The devil comes witih 
new temptations. Instead of coming as a roaring 
lion, he comes as an angel of light. There are prais- 
es on every hand. Everything seems to be going our 
way. Persecution has abated. Calls come to easy 
places. Indeed there is such a eonfusion of voices, 
it is hard to distinguish the right from the wrong. 
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No need to pray so mTich as before, no r-eed to ago- 
nize before God for the salvation of souls, just preach 
the old sermons used in the days gone by; 
it will save bodily strength, and 'bring just as good 
results. If not, 'the fault lies in the people, and n-ot 
in the preacher. 

Or if these temptations come to the layman, if he 
is praised by the world around him, and he accepts 
these praises, it closes his mouth. He cannot re- 
buke them as in the days gone by ; and a compromise 
is the result. 

But, thank Grod, there are those who can detect 
Satan even in a shining robe. They refuse to stop 
in this charming country; close their ears and run 
on. True the next thing they know, those who cried 
hosanna one day are ready to crucify the next. So 
they find, instead of praises, a cold shoulder. A 
side glance, and the gulf (between them grows wider. 
B'ut GrO'd's smile rests upon the overcomers, and He 
soon brings them out into a large place. Every 
mountain peak gained, makes the next one, although 
steeper and harder to clim'b, easier. Grlory to Jesus ! 

While faith receives harder and more protracted 
thrusts, yet it has gained so m-uch in quality and 
quantity, that the devil finds after he has done his 
utmost, his tests have just sandpapered and polished 
it up until it shines and glows more than ever. Al- 
though he tries to pour cold water on our zeal for 
Ood, Jesus just pours on the oil, and the fire burns 
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Hov/ glad I am I ever started on this upward way ! 
While I have only scaled a fevv of the mountain 
peaks, yet I am determined to press on the upward 
way, and never maike my camp fire in the same place, 
as Bro. Reese says. While the way is narrow, some- 
times stones and thorns pierce our feet, and the way 
is so dark we can hardly see; yet, thank God, our 
Guide knows every step of the way, and if we are 
only willing to just trust Him, He will (bring us safe- 
ly through. Bless His precious name forever! 

Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom, 
Sometimes w^here Eden's howers hloom, 
Through waters still o'er troubled sea, 
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CHAPTER XXVIII. 
Heaven. 

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have 
entered into the heart of man, the things which God 
hath prepared for them that love Him. 1 Cor. 2 :9. 

A great many people when they think of heaven, 
think of a city with golden streets, pearly gates and 
jasper walls. This of course is all right, 'but only 
the lover of gold and precious stones would he sat- 
isfied if that were all heaven is. I have often 
thought I would like to go, if there were a spot in 
this world, where my dear husband, precious child- 
ren and myself, could build a neat little home, where 
storms never come, where the summers were cool 
and the winters were warm, where one could plant 
lovely flowers and there would be no drought to dry 
them up, or high winds to tear them, to pieces, vfhere 
the weeds v/ouldn't grov»^ and fruits and vegetables, 
and grain of every description, would grow pro- 
fusely and abundantly. 

What matter if one would have to work, if hi?; 
labors v^ere always rewarded a hundred fold? Wliat 
matter if one did feel tired, if always sure of a good 
night's rest, without any danger of ever getting 
sick or feeling bad? Work is pleasure when one 
has a well, strong body. The different occupations 
of the world that engage brain and muscle power, 
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from corroding care and worry. This I thought 
would be heaven below and 'good enough for me, but 
thank God heaven is all this and infinitely more. 

In the first place there are people who have a ca- 
pacity for enjoying love, pleasure, and beauty aibove 
that of other folks. One person will be perfectly 
enraptured with the enchanted vision that greets 
his wondering eyes from 'the top of some lofty hill- 
top. The landscape as it stretches out before him in 
all its natural beauty and loveliness, holds him 
spellpound, in rapture and speechless wonder and 
awe. But the other fellow fails to see anything out 
of the ordinary, is hungry and more concerned about 
opening the lunch basket, and pu'tting his teeth into 
some of the fine cake and pie the hasket contains, 
desiring more to feast his stomach, than to feast his 
eyes on the beauties of nature. One lady will love 
the rose the 'best of all flowers, no matter how beau- 
tiful others may be; another will he partial to the 
lily, and prefer it to all others, while many people 
have no decided preference, and love all flowers. 

I 'believe that when this mortal shall put on im- 
mortality, that our capacity for loving, enjoying 
pleasure, peace, joy, etc., will be greatly increased. 
How much we do not know. But I 'believe that we 
will love Jesus with a love far surpassing anything 
we have been able to pour at His feet while here. 
True, we will have no life there to lay down for His 
sake, there will be no tears, no persecutions, no suf- 
fering to endure because we love Him, but our love 



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for Him, and ail He has done for us, will 'be the kind 
that only immortals know. We try to love Him 
here above everything else. We do love Him with 
a love, that only the sanctified know, v/hich some- 
times feels it will burst this tenement of clay and 
soar away to be with Him forever. But it only comes 
in snatches ; there are dark hours of trial, and temp- 
tations ; there are voices, so many, sometimes of bus- 
iness, worldly cares and burdens, almost drowning 
out His 'precious voice. We must constantly be on 
guard that the devil does not get us to put our af- 
fection on some other object besides our Lord, our 
husband, mone}^, woi'k, children, home, etc. He 
must draw us continually to Himself in loving em- 
brace, encourage and strengthen us, and keep love 
brightly burning on the altar of our hearts, lest it 
smolder and die. But glory to God, up there will 
be no need of adding fuel to keep love burning. It 
will 'be poured out lavishly upon the Lover of our 
souls, our heavenh^ Bridegroom and everlasting Hus- 
band, without any danger of running short, or be- 
ing turned into another channel, or being mixed with 
alien affections. We will never again have to go to 
a camp meeting to have our love renewed or increas- 
ed. No, instead of decreasing in any way, it will in- 
crease as the eternal ages roll by in volume, depth 
and richness. 

Then our appreciation of the beautiful will be high- 
ly intensified. The fall has robbed us of many finer 
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been blunted and stunned, until they fail to see tlie 
beauties God has put all around them. The tiny 
flower, lifting its dew-filled chalice up to the sky, 
is a thing of rare beauty and workmanship, but how 
many never stop to give it a passing glance. A five 
"dollar gold piece has more charm for them. The 
towering mountains, piled up by an omnipotent 
Ood, •clad in their verdure of evergreen pines, are 
an ever increasing spectacle of 'grandeur and mag- 
nificence, yet they fail to arouse a single thought of 
greatness or strength in many a heart. 

But over there in that beautiful 'city of gold it will 
be otherwise. True, the flowers will never fade, 
they will be everywhere, of variety of grace and col- 
or, form and beauty that we ever dreamed of, but 
they will be admired, appreciated 'because our God 
m.ade them. Here we tire very quickly of every- 
thing. No matter what it is. The first time we saw 
the mountains, to us they seemed grand, but it was 
not long until, seeing them every day, they failed to 
appeal to us as at first. A nice dress, or whatever 
it may be, becomes old to us and we must have some- 
thing new to attract our attention. Not so over there. 
Things will never grow old. Like the beautiful 
songs of Zion that fill the soul with rapture, and 
the ever fresJh page of God's word, the most insignifi- 
cant of heaven's treasures will always be fresh, fully 
appreciated, duly admired and greatly praised. 

This is not all. We have tasted, the nectar of 
love, we have felt the bond of friendship, w^e have 



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known the tie of human iblood, we have laughed and 
cried, wept and rejoiced in holy fellowship with the 
saints. But it was only a taste. There was mixed 
up with it all, a weary mind, a tired body, a bur- 
dened heart, sadness, sorrow, and care. But, oh! 
what shall I say of friendship over there? Can pen 
or tongue describe it? Can mortal ever conceive or 
imagine just a little of what it will be to 'be bound 
with the bond of friendship that will never end, 
never ^be broken, never 'be mixed with deceit, strange- 
ness or lukewarmness ? 

Then let us together contemplate what it will 
mean never to feel, see, or hear sin any more. Never 
feel the sting of the slanderous tongue, never hear 
the unkind criticism, or see the malicious glance. 
Here we are liable to get so used to sin we hardly 
notice it. Not so in that land w^here all is sinless 
and pure. Methinks our hearts and minds and the 
atmosphere of heaven will 'be such that could it be 
possible that an unkind thought should germinate, 
long ibefore it could be 'brought to light it would be 
discovered and repulsed. 

Here G-od hardly ever allows two holiness families 
to live dose together long. He scatters them here 
and there, because there are so few of them, that 
He must place them to be lights to the world and 
the salt of the earth. Up there, they will be one 
large company, all of one mind, melted together in 
one bond of love, in holy, heavenly, fellowship. 

How our hearts ache as we separate one from the 



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other at some large holiness camp meeting, or con- 
vention ; how sorrow fills our hearts and we feel so 
homesick and lonesome. We .would 'be so glad of 
Jesus came and caught us up all together. Up 
there the camp meeting will never end ; no parting 
words will ever be spoken. Olorj^ to our Ood ! 

Then the capacity for resting will 'be marvelous. 
Oh how often the soul longs for that eternal rest! 
True, the sanctified life has rest from 'the carnal 
strivings within, but what is this that dogs their 
every step? That flaps his black wings in their 
faces? What causes those billows of temptation, 
unbelief and darkness to (beat against their souls? 
Ah, the enemy of our souls will never tire of weary- 
ing us, and try, if possible, to entrap our feet until, 
with the last fleeting breath, we will leave the ibattle- 
field forever, and for the first time know what it 
means to he at rest from barrassing demons and 
devils who surround us at every turn. 

Sweet as it will be to find sweet rest from the 
enemy of our souls, greatly will we appreciate the 
rest for our glorified bodies. Here there is so much 
weight of earthly matter that it is a burden to carry 
it about. Even when in the best of health, one tires 
exceedingly of even sitting in one position any 
length of time. We cannot hold out our hands at 
arms ' length more than a few minutes at a time with- 
out extreme fatigue. Then consider 'the many aches 
and pains the human family is subject to, from the 
crown of their heads, to the soles of their feet ! 



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Oh ! glorious thought for the blind, the lame, the 
burdened, the weary that some day, if they have 
made their peace with God, if their garments have 
been washed in the precious blood of Jesus, they will 
put off this cumbersome tenement of clay, and, light 
as a feather^ without a burden, shackle or eight of 
any kind, sweep out never more to know the thought 
of pain, sorrow or fatigue. 

Then there is peace, light, joy, contentment. Can 
anyone fathom these in heaven? 

Thus, while heaven will be beautiful, free from 
pain and care, yet if we had no greater capacity for 
enjoying it than we have the good things of earth, 
much would be lost on our appreciation. But there 
we will enjoy and appreciate the least of heaven's 
treasures more than the greatest of earth's adorn- 
ments. What then will be the joy over heaven's 
greatest Pearl! Him whom it is heaven to know 
dow^n here onl}^ by faith! No wonder that John fell 
as dead. Thank God some day, with immortal vis- 
ion that can gaze at the brightness of a million suns, 
we will gaze upon the face of One who will forever 
walk by our side, ravishing our immortal hearts 
with love these mortal hearts could never endure, 
and filling our souls with the joy and peace beyond 
earthly comprehension, we will bask in the sunshine 
of His smile, revel in the beauty of His comeliness, 
and with immortal tongues praise Him forever w^ho 
died that we might live, and washed us in His own 
precious blood. 



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CHAPTER XXIX. 
Points on Justification and Sanctification. 

The justified are babes in Christ, drink milk, are 
the citizens, have joy, have peace v^ith Ood, have 
life, have Jesus with them, are thirsting after right- 
eousness, are iborn of the Spirit, have a new heart, 
are washed, are still carnal, are double-minded, are 
worldly-minded, are taken out of the world, are 
looking for sanctification. 

Justification is the foundation, the seed of corn, 
the ticket, the wilderness experience, the holy place, 
a resurrection for sinners. God gave Christ for the 
justification of sinners. Jus'tification is sanctifica- 
tion begun, is obtained by repentance and faith. 

The sanctified are men and women in Christ, eat 
m'eat, are the soldiers, have fullness of joy, have the 
peace of G-od, have the more abundant life, have 
Jesus within them, are filled, are 'baptized with the 
Spirit, have a clean heart, are purified, are Spirit 
led, 'have only one mind, are spiritually-minded, have 
the world taken out of them, are looking for Jesus 
to come. 

iSanctification is the house, the stalk, full salva- 
tion, the Canaan experience, the most holy place, a 
crucifixion for believers. Christ gave Himself for 
the sanctification of the church. Sanctification is 
justification completed, is obtained by consecration 
and faith. 



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CHAPTER XXX. 
Motives. 

¥/hether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever 
ye do, do all to the glory of God. I Cor. 10 :31. 

Some motive prompts every act, ibe it ever so small. 
Motives are the reasons we do things. Sometimes 
they are involuntary, but usually voluntar3\ Mo- 
tives are very deceptive 'because hidden away from 
human eyes ; ibut they are the things we are judged 
by in God's sight. He who can pierce the deepest 
recess of our hearts, knows our motives better than 
we do ourselves. After He has sifted them down, 
what remains is what we are. 

Good motives may ripen into wrong acts ; also bad 
motives may result in good acts. That is why the 
Bible says, ''Judge not." The woman had a very 
good motive v/ihen she gathered those cast-off clothes 
and gave them to that poor family. But scarlet 
fever in its worst form broke out in that family from 
those clothes; a most tragic result from a good, 
noble motive. Then going to church is a commenda- 
ble act, something we should all do. What evil mo- 
tives sometimes prompt people to go to church! 
Sometimes it is to show off a new suit, sometimes to 
hide rascally acts under a cloak of piety. 

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is'h heart. ''What returns shall I get," is the ques- 
tion before every act, even when the motive is an 
involuntary one. The man that is so fond of his 
family would soon show the oither side, if wife be- 
came careless of his comfort and wishes. Even 
charitable acts are expected to be rewarded by the 
praise of men and the motto, ''A good deed deserves 
another." The unsaved know nothing of looking to 
God for a reward, so naturally they turn to the v*^orld 
for compensation, showing up (the selfish motive un- 
derneath it all. The justified are between the un- 
saved and sanctified. Their motives are a strange 
mixture of the two. They are the double-minded 
tha;t James speaks about. When they go to ehurch 
sometimes it is with such a feeling of importance 
that they suppose it could not get along without 
them. (Here we step on the toes of some daiming 
to be sanctified.) If they keep on the good side of 
the pastor, it is sometimes to get an office in the 
church. If they are in a "Jesus crowd" they are 
hear't and soul for God's cause, ibut if they are in an 
''Anti- Jesus crowd" they are strangely quiet, and 
by their silence are anti too. While they mean to ibe 
true to God, and live only for His glory, yet like 
children, they put great stress on non-essentials, and 
leave the weightier matters go. They are influenced 
to a great degree 'by their surroundings; they are 
afraid of being peculiar, and carnality is more or lese 
mixed up in their Christian service. 

Not so with the wholly sanctified. While it is e«- 



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sential for the sanctified to a^lways watcli liis or her 
mo'tives (because here is where the devil will get in 
first of all) yet, thank Grod, the fountain has been 
cleansed, and sweet water will be the output so long 
as it stays cleansed. As long as the motives spring 
from a desire to 'do all things to the glory of God, 
there may be sometimes mistakes in actions, but can- 
not ibe in the motive. 

Scarlet fever w^as in the home, a strict quarantine 
had been enforced, there was no possible way to 
earn money, and about $200 was needed in four 
weeks. A call comes to 'go and hold a meeting. The 
devil says, "Go; you may get some money." The 
Lord says, ''Go and preach for me." Two voices 
calling to the same place. What a chance for the 
devil to prompt the v/rong motive, but no, there is 
no love of money in that sanctified 'heart, but a great 
love for souls and unhounded faith in God. So he 
starts for the meeting, after his clothes are duly fu- 
migated, with the one motive, the glory of God and 
salvation of souls. Glory to Jesus! 

One night I awakened and heard a kicking in a 
barn. Husband was gone, and so all the care of the 
household fell on me. There was a horse on the 
place, and I of course thought it Vv^as Dick, our 
horse. Visions of a battered down barn door 'came 
up hefore me. It was a very cold night and I won- 
dered what to do, when I heard the same noise more 
distinctly and perceived this time that it did not 
come from our own barn, but the neighbor's. I im- 



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mediately felt at ease and was preparing to drop off 
to sleep w'hen tlie devil said to me, ''See how selfisli 
you are. You did not want your own barn door 
ruined, but you don't care about your neighbor's." 
I then began to cross-question myself to see what 
motive I had in being willing to so suddenly drop 
my anxiety w^hen I found it to be my neighbor's 
barn that was in danger. This was the answer my 
heart gave me. Our own barn is only a frail struct- 
ure, built more as a woodshed than a barn; a horse 
could easily kick it all to pieces, but our neighbor's 
born was a large, well-built barn, with double plank- 
ing w'herever it was liable to come in contact with 
horses' heels, the stalls were large and roomy, and 
no possible harm could come to horse or barn. So 
I was very glad when my motive was sifted down 
that I could give a satisfactory answer. 

A certain lady had a very rich father. She and 
her husband, who was a preacher, moved into a com- 
munity w'here he took up a pastorate, and was sup- 
ported by the free-will offerings of the people. The 
devil whispered to this lady two suggestions. One 
was, "You better not tell them your father is rich 
because they may not be so free with their offerings 
if you do. ' ' The other suggestion was just the op- 
posite. "You better tell them you are a rich man's 
daughter, and then you will receive the honor due a 
wealthy man's child." Here she was in a strait. If 
she heeded either of his suggestions, she would com- 
mit sin ; should she speak, or should she keep silence. 



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But she was a sanctified woman with sanctified com- 
mon sense, and she saw she did not need to allow 
either motive to enter her heart. She eould speak 
of her father being a rich man because it was true^ 
without the least ibit of carnal pride or the motive 
of obtaining homage, and she could keep perfect 
silence if she wished, as it was a purely worldly af- 
fair, without a tinge of coveteousness or bribing the 
people by her silence. 

It means much to always have pure motives, and 
they can only spring from a pure heart. They they 
will operate spontaneously, and we will never need 
to fear of being found out in some underhanded 
business, but are willing at any time to have our 
motives as well as our deeds, aired and investigated, 
which will be done on the judgment day. 



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CHAPTER XXXI. 

Misunderstandings. 

Many a man and woman with large intellects and 
deep research, who perhaps lived in an out-of-the- 
way place, have been criticised for their indifference 
to their surroundings, their high sounding words, 
and 'because they seemed to live on a plane above 
the people 'they came in contact with day hy day, 
they failing to appreciate the fact that these people 
were living in another world. The trifling, current 
gossip of the day had no interest for them. They 
longed for fellowship with the scholarly minds, and 
v/ihen they could not have that, they contented them- 
selves in making companions of their books, and 
would spend their wihole lives pouriug over the pages 
of ancient volumes and bury themselves in literature 
and study. 

Just so it is with many other walks of life. The 
artist with his palette and 'brush sitting out there 
hour after hour before a clump of trees just at the 
bend of the river, trying to put on canvas some of 
Ood's beautiful scenery, is criticised by hard work- 
ing people as a lazy fellow. They don't see any use 
in that far-away dreamy look that seems forever 
forming pictures of beautiful nooks and corners in 
nature's picture gallery. They fail to see the refin- 
ing influence real art has on the human mind. Just 
as bad pictures ruin and blight the mind, so beau- 



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tiful pictures lift and inspire noble thoughts and 
h^lp to make the world better. 

But the artist if surrounded by folks who do not 
sympathize with his calling feels alone in the world, 
feels misunderstood and longs for some one who 
would speak a word of cheer and praise. Are there 
any other folks who feel alone in the world? Who 
feel they are speaking a strange language, and try 
to explain as they may people will misunderstand 
and criticise, understand just the opposite and get 
offended, and feel these people mean them harm 
when their hearts are iburning with love, and they 
are trying their best to tell them so ? Ah yes ! These 
are the sanctified folks. Many a newly sanctified 
soul has gone off to the secret place where they know 
One will meet them who always understands them, 
and cry out at His feet their sorrow and heart 
woundings, all bewildered at the new state 'of af- 
fairs. They feel like pilgrims and strangers in a 
strange land. They try to make people understand 
them, but the more they try the more they are mis- 
understood, and they all sooner or later learn the 
lesson that the only way to make people understand 
them, is to live a sweet, holy life before them day 
after day. Very soon they will want that same 
sweet peace of soul, which the sanctified know and 
manifest, to fill their own hearts and lives. 

Sanctified folks, although living in the world, are 
not of the world. Their conversation is in heaven ; 
their thoughts are on heavenly things, and their Ian- 



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guage being the language of Canaan, it has a pecu- 
liar and strange accent, that marks them as foreign- 
ers, strangers in a strange land. iSo is it any wonder 
that people call them crazy, cranky, etc.? 

They live in another world. When the worldly 
people around them are burdened down with care 
and worry, they are light and free ; when others seem 
in darkness, they are basking in the sunshine of the 
Saviour's smile; when the devil is holding high car- 
nival, and foolish jesting and vulgar laughing is 
the order of the hour, the sanctified feel a burden of 
soul, a tenderness and piety of spirit for the lost, de- 
luded souls around them. Almost everywhere the 
spirit of the children of God and the spirit of the 
world are contrary one to the other, and the world, 
not understanding this, judges the sanctified to be 
cranks, feeling they are continually crossed by those 
whom they think feel themselves above them. Thus 
the carnal nature within them is aroused, and they 
hate to come in contact with the one whose very 
presence puts them under conviction and makes them 
feel uneasy in their sins. But sooner or later they 
learn that these "cranky holiness folks" are lovely 
neighbors, kind friends, loving counselors, ready 
helpers, good prayers; always happy, always peace- 
ful, always self-sacrificing, and their prejudice melts 
away. They see their own fruitless, worthless lives, 
and go to Jesus for a place among the despised, mis- 
understood, Caanan dwellers, who are on their way 
to the city of God, there to dwell with Him forever. 



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CHAPTER XXXII. 

Gad's Factory. 

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Je- 
sus unto good works. Epli. 2 :10. 

Many things that we need in onr everyday lives 
are mannfactnrod in what we call factories. The 
^hoes we wear, the clothes from which our clothing 
is made, our furniture, etc., are all made by special 
maehinery and skilled labor. 

God also has a factory. The product is the saints. 
The factories are located in this world, while the 
power house is in the skies. The angels manipulate 
the machinery, and Jesus is the grand master hand. 
Prayers are the leather bands that keep the machin- 
ery running between earth and heaven. 

Holiness is the cloth, and Jesus is the pattern. 
When we are laid dowm and cut down to fit oar di- 
vine pattern, it hurts as the divine Tailor, the Hcly 
Grhost, cuts away all the unnecessary cloth, aad fash- 
ions us in humility, love and patience after Him who 
became an Example for us all. 

He cuts away our friends, relatives, former ambi- 
tions, plans, etc., and leaves us bare of all our former 
bulkiness. But as we submit to His workmanship, 
He will make out of us a blessing to this lost world. 

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are heavy and coarse. Just so with God's garments, 
the saints. They have different places to fill in this 
world : one will he a hell-preacher, another \v ill al- 
ways take Calvary and Pentecost for his j>ulpit; one 
can wield the pen for God, while others would rather 
use the sword of the Spirit; one makes a fine slum 
worker, another shines in an orphan's homo. 

Thus the fabric may he of a different cojor, of 
varying strength and pattern, yet God finds use for 
them all. 

Now all factories place a trade mark on their 
goods. A mark owned and controlled by the owner 
oil the factory alone, so that it can be recognized all 
over the world. Just so, God has a trade-mark on 
all His saints. No matter what .their color; no mat- 
ter "-what church they 'belong to ; no matter whether 
they have come from the slums or high society, they 
all bear the same trade mark. They recognize one 
another, and if one is serving in a high place, he 
does not say to the one serving in a low place, "You 
are not from my factory,'' just because his service 
for the Master happens to be for the lowly, but gives 
him the right hand of fellowship, lends his influence, 
and helps his brother in the faith, ibeeause he bears 
the trade-mark. Do you want to know what this 
trade-mark is? Ah, it is a very little word, but 
means so much. Love! Ah, yes; Jesus said, "Love 
one another." John says, "If we love one an- 
other, God dvvelleth in us, and his love is perfected 
in us." L John 4:12. 



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Then what shall we say of the garments that have 
done long service in sunshine and rain? That are 
threadbare at the elbows, frayed at the wrist^bands, 
buttons gon«, several patches show skillful needle- 
work and telling the tale of service nearly ended? 

Oh, what a glorious occasion it will be when the 
saints come marching in ! Some who have heen long 
in the fight with many a battle scar, weary from 
the long marches, laden down with 'the spoils from 
the holy war, with the tread of conquerors will 
march through the pearly gates into their everlast- 
ing rest. 



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CHAPTER XXXIII. 
God's School. 

As surely as there are graded schools all over onr 
fair land to teach writing and spelling, just so sure- 
ly God has a graded school for His children. 

The lessons are patience, love, faith, long-suffer- 
ing, humility, submissiveness, meekness, etc. The 
teachers are trial, testings, pain, losses, humiliations, 
afflictions. God is the great superintendent of this 
school and He oversees all the teachers and marks 
all the lessons Himself, and does all the promoting. 

Now this array of teachers would seem like a very 
hard set if their teaching was confined to Christians 
alone, hut everyone in the whole world is included 
in the scholarship, from the little infant to the eldest. 

The first lesson, ihowever, that receives any credit 
is repentance. When that is fully learned promo- 
tion immediately begins, and is continued as fast as 
each lesson is learned. How sad that some go 
through this school — even to old age, have many 
troubles, misfortunes, dark hours, losses and sor- 
rows, and yet they have never learned the first les- 
son! All efforts to teach them have proved fruitless, 
and they must reap the reward of their negligence. 
I once knew an old man with hair white as snow, 
who was not saved, and seemed to be steeled against 
any effort put forth toward his salvation. He came 



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over to our house one day and related his experience 
in a cyclone just a eouple of years previous. He told 
how he was just about to take hold of the knob of 
the door to enter a neighbor's house, when the wind 
picked him up and carried him to a plowed field, 
where it would throw him down and then pick him 
up, again and again, until he was all battered and 
bruised. Finally it threw him in the corner of the 
fen-ce on the harfbed wires, and there he lay for a 
couple of hours unconscious. Of course no one knew 
where he was; it was a neighbor's house he thought 
of entering when he saw the storm approaching, so 
he lay there until he came to himself. Bruised as 
ho was, he managed to get to the house some way. 
He found he could not see out of one eye, and when 
he looked in the looking-glass he saw that the flesh 
had been torn from his forehead and hung over his 
eye. He was a sight to behold, all dirty and bloody. 
It was two months before he was able to get around 
again. 

Well, I told him that God surely spared him in 
that miraculous way in order to give him still an- 
other chance to get saved ; that accident was simply 
Grod's voice calling him to repentance. He seemed 
thoughtful, but soon changed the subject. It was 
the last chance I had to speak to him personally 
about his soul, and he finally died unprepared as far 
as I know. 

Then there are others that learn the first lesson 
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drop oiit of the graded school down to the sinner's 
class. Sometimes they will again repent, and God 
will always promote them to justification, for He has 
no pets ; every one is served alike. 

The class of justification is a hard class. Grod has 
so arranged that one need not stay in this class any 
longer than it takes to learn the lesson of consecra- 
tion. Some learn it quickly and are promoted to 
the next class, which is sanctification. Some, alas, 
«tay in the justification class year in and year out, 
ever learning, but not able to come to a knowledge 
of the truth. They will partly learn the lesson, and 
then spoil it all, and it has to be learned over again. 
They promise the Lord they will go through with 
Him, but they back down again and again, and many 
times they find themselves back in the sinner's class. 
But the sanctified have a fine time. While their 
lessons are hard, yet God gives them such a good 
helper that He makes all the problems plain to 
them, and helps them over the rough places. His 
name is the Holy Ghost. Bless God for this Com- 
forter who leads us into all truth ! There is no eop- 
ying from one another; no cheating or underhand 
work in this 'crowd; every student is honest to the 
core. There is a short cut from this room to the 
sinner's room, and anyone who cheats quickly 
takes that short cut, and if he ever wants to come 
back, must commence from the bottom again. 

Neither are these students envious if one makes 
better progress than they do ; neither are they puffed 



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up with pride if the Superintendent seems to honor 
them a little. They are the cleanest, most polite and 
loving set you ever saw. Their faces just shine ; to 
loo'k at them makes the saints shout, and puts the 
sinners under conviction. Glory to Jesus. It is in 
1;his room that the Superintendent loves to linger and 
when the lessons are hard He just gives them a smile 
once in a while, and it works like a charm! 

One of the first lessons learned in this class is 
love. It is wonderful how many things we can love 
v^e used to hate, when we get in this room. The fal- 
len girls, the ragged street urchin, the beggar, 
our enemies, the prayer meeting and ever 
so many things. The first lesson came when a cer- 
tain mother we will write about came home from the 
meeting and said the Lord had sanctified her. No 
one said anything but Aunt Jane. She said, **Yes, 
you're sanctified. I guess she will go to heaven 
right away John; let's order 'her coffln." How it 
stung to the very core ! It was her first lesson. The 
question was, ' ' Shall I answer back ? ' ' The answer, 
**No, run up to your room and pray for her." She 
learned that lesson, and the next morning she learn- 
ed another when she said, ''Good morning. Aunt 
Jane," just as though nothing had happened. It is 
needless to say Aunt Jane soon saw mother had 
something worth having and she entered the graded 
school too, and didn't stop until she was in the 
sanctification class. Her first teacher was persecu- 
tion; and he isn't done with her yet. There are 



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quite a number of lessons yet to learn, but the Holy 
Ohost pours in the joy and comforts her heart, and 
the lessons are learned one by one, because He helps 
her find the answers. Bless His name ! 

When she went to the Ladies' Aid, as was her 
custom before her sanctification, she found a strange 
coldness awaiting her, and they treated her as 
though she had been guilty of some great crime. 
But the precious Holy G'host gave her scripture 
verses in abundance, and helped her to prove to them 
what wonderful things God could do for them if 
they would only let Him. 

Then the next thing she knew, she walked right 
up against a big mountain on prayer meeting night. 
Father hadn't said anything thus far, but when 
mother came into the room, and asked him to go 
with her to prayer meeting, he looked more angry 
than I had ever seen him look 'before, and said to 
her, "Do you suppose you are going to drag me 
around to old, dry, women's meetings, and get me 
to be as foolish as you are? No, never! It you love 
that meeting more than me, why go, for all I care." 
Poor mother ! Persecution was a persistent teacher. 
Lessons were coming thick and fast, and some of 
them were hard problems to one who had been loved 
and cherished all her life. 

Two ways opened up before her; a nice, comfort- 
able armchair by the fire, the approval of one she 
had always striven to please ; on the other hand, an 
aching heart, a lonely journey through the cold and 



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enow to the church, and the disapproval of him who 
had never spoken an unkind word hefor^. What a 
pro'blem! ''Shall I go?" She doesn't pretend to 
know the answer ; so she goes to the kind Superin- 
tendent who is always ready to give aid and council 
to His pupils when they ask for it; she tells Him 
all about it, and before long she feels His tender 
arms about her ; He pours in the strength and power 
to go through with Him, and she arises from her 
knees with a new^ light in her eyes. She has found 
the answer. She goes down stairs with her wraps 
on and slips up to father's chair, plants a kiss on 
his forehead, and slips quietly out, to wend her way 
to the prayer service. Her heart is so light, she 
hardly touches the ground as she speeds along, and 
when she reaches the church and her carw^orn pas- 
tor greets her with a hearty *'God bless you," her 
heart overflows, and she knows w'hy the answer was 
thus. Only a few were out. There were not man^' 
that had consecrated themselves to God, and hence 
the new pastor, a man of God, filled with the Holy 
Ghost, found a hard field to work in. But the few 
that were present were all whole-souled Christians, 
and their prayers and testimonies had the real ring 
to them, the result being that they had a fine meet- 
ing. The pastor was much encouraged, and mother 
received light and help that she could not have done 
without. When she got home everyone was in bed, 
and she feeling the drawing of the Spirit, went into 
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life was! Her aim was the glory of God eontin^- 
ally, and she seemed to take more pleasure on her 
knees alone with God, than she ever knew in her 
life before. So she talked with God on and on. 
Ah, how she told Him all her inmost desires; how 
she opened her heart to him, promised Him her 
whole heart's allegiance, and plead with Him to 
save her hnshand, whom she loved as her own life 1 
She had been there one hour When she forgot all 
about her surroundings, and, in her earnestness, 
called aloud on G^d. Father hearing the strange 
noise, quietly got up, and perceiving it came from 
the library, went to the door and listenel. Oh, how 
the Holy Spirit strove with his soul! Ever since 
mother had gotten sanctified he seemed like a dif- 
ferent man. He acted like he was being contested, 
and a fierce battle was going on within. Now the cli- 
max was reached. With tremhling hands and fal- 
tering steps he opened the door, and dropping on 
his knees beside the prostrate form of mother, he 
began to cry and plead for salvation. Mother was 
in such agony of soul that at first she did not realize 
what had happened, but about the time she realized 
the situation, father had heard from heaven. Then 
such rejoicing and shouting. It was a blessed time. 

The next lesson put upon the blackboard is * * Trust 
in God. ' ' There are so many sides to this lesson it 
takes a number of teachers to teach them all. One 
thing we must trust God for is our own testimonies. 
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meeting I used to make up a testimony and then 
leam it by iieairt, hui very often when I got up to 
recite it, like a piece on a Christmas program, some 
way or other the whole thing slipped away from me, 
and I forgot every word I intended to say. Failure 
was my teacher at this time, and he just kept at me 
until I learned to trust God for my testimony, and I 
get up even if I had nothing in view to say, trusting 
Him to keep His promise when He said, "Open thy 
mouth and I will fill it.*' 

Then this same teacher thought we needed some 
deeper lessons along the same line of trusting God. 
So, in a certain part of God's vineyard where we 
were called to labor, this teacher stamped everything 
we did with failure. Our tears and groans, our 
prayers and fastings, our preaching and exhorting, 
our love and kindness, our efforts in calling success- 
ful evangelists, and spending lots of money, all 
seemed to be a fruitless task, and we learned the 
•lesson, not to depend on our own efforts, but trust 
God with results, simply obeying Him in every de- 
tail, knowing that nothing is lost that is done in His 
name. 

Then comes along the severest teacher of all. His 
name is Need. He is a grim-looking fellow, with no 
mercy, and lots of determination in his makeup. He 
often uses the ruler, and one can't shirk lessons when 
he is around. But after the lessons are learned 
we thank God for this teacher who seemed so cruel 
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more thoroughly learned under his tutorship than 
any other. Sometimes he employs the help of the 
teacher called Loss. In that case, beginning with 
perhaps the burning down of the home, or an almost 
complete erop failure, maybe sickness comes, with 
heavy grocery bills and no money coming in. One 
dear old bi^other bought an orange grove in Flor- 
ida, with a prospect of meeting all the payments 
with the first crop. He was in the sanctification 
class. His teacher just at this time happened to be 
Loss. A severe frost came that killed all the 
fruit on the trees, and this brother had a severe 
lesson on trusting God. !So he went to the Super- 
intendent (bless His dear name !) and told Him what 
a hard problem he h'ad to solve. 'So the Superin- 
tendent came to his rescue; and laying this matter 
on the hearts of four of His true children living 
thousands of miles apart, and not knowing what the 
other was doing, they all sent enough money to this 
brother to meet his payments. How he praised God 
for this lesson of trust in Him ! 

Then there is need of food, clothing, schooling, car 
fare, etc., but as the lessons are learned one by one 
we find ourselves growing in grace, knowledge and 
strength, and the problems that once were so hard, 
get easier, land we learn to taike them all to the great 
Superintendent who watches over us with such ten- 
der love, and only gives us those lessons that will 
make us more like Him, and will help us to be strong 
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The hardest lesson I had to learn on trust was 
when my darling little Beanlah died of the searlet 
fever. That was when we were in Cincinnati, and 
scarlet fever in its malignant form (bro'ke out in our 
little flock. God had wonderfully healed the two 
boys, and it seemed again and again that it was His 
will to spare us little Beaulah ; but He knew I needed 
this lesson of trusting Him even when grim death 
entered the home, and so He permitted death to be 
my teacher. I felt she would be taken from us, but 
I just could not bear the thought of her dying, be- 
cause I had not yet experienced the wonderful grace 
of God in a dark hour like this, and thought it would 
'be unhearable. But thank God when we knew her 
little spirit was safe with J esus, such a heavy burden 
was lifted from my heart, such a comfort and joy 
was poured into my soul. I realized such an utter 
abandonment to the whole will of God that there was 
not a single tear shed for my darling halby's depart- 
ure. Jesus seemed to so completely fill the vacancy 
that we felt she was only transferred from this eold, 
friendless world to the bright fields of heaven, and 
rejoiced in her gain of eternal life so early in her 
life's career. 

Then lessons on patience are of daily occurrences. 
Patience must have its perfect work; there are all 
sorts of teachers employed to teach this much needed 
virtue. After we have entered the sanetification 
class, we have on hand a good supply of patience, but 
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be refined, enriched and increased to meet the de- 
mands of a useful life in God's service. 

Many a man or w^oman blameless in their ouftward 
deportment as to honesty and humility, have spoiled 
a good reputation by a single act or word of impa- 
tience. A certain Methodist preacher was on a train 
which was late. They were hurrying on, when they 
came to a wreck, 'and had to wait still longer until 
the track could Ibe cleared. Everyone fumed and 
fussed, and no little complaining was going on among 
the passengers with the exception of this one sancti- 
fied preacher. He said nothing for a long time, nei- 
ther did he know he was an ohject of observation, 
but after nearly an hour's silence he looked at his 
watch and exclaimed, *'My, I'm getting hungry, it's 
pretty near 1 o'clock." He heard a woman say, "I 
thought there was one man who was awfully patient, 
but he finally had to speaJk." Needless to say, he 
felt ashamed and resolved to profit by his lesson. 

Another preacher who owned an automobile show- 
ed his need of more refined patience. His machine 
was out of order and he had a world of trouble get- 
ting it in shape again. Through it all he seemed to 
have unlimited patience. When he had it all ready, 
and was preparing to run down town there were a 
number of children standing around, desiring to 
ride a block or so in his automobile. He allowed sev- 
eral to get in, and as one little girl was crying be- 
cause she was too little to climh in, her mother came 
out and was going to lift her in, ^but just as she was 



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about to do this, he jumped off and said, Either 
these children stay at home, or I will ! " A neighbor 
woman, who had been converted, and was looking 
into holiness, heard this im^patient remark from this 
evangelist, and speaking of it afterwards, one could 
see she had lost faith in that man's profession, and 
also in holiness to a great degree. 

That was only a lesson on patience, and had this 
young man heeded it, he would have been enriched 
in his own soul, several children would have had the 
pleasure of a short automobile ride, and perhaps a 
soul helped toward sanetification. Then come les- 
sons on submission. I used to think it was all right 
to submit to G-od, but I hated to submit to those 
around me, failing to see that G-od ruled over all 
things, and every time we submit to one another we 
submit to Ood. One man I have in mind, objected 
strongly io wringing out a wash rag if it happened 
to be left in the wash pan, and he would throw it 
out with the water, giving his wife the trouble of 
hunting a fresh one. She had several little ones to 
wait on, her hands were full, and sometimes she 
would forget, and leave the wash rags in the pan, and 
as often as he found it, he would fling it out, no 
matter how much the wife protested. He could not 
see how submitting to his wife in this particular 
would be honoring God. But as time went on, and 
he realized that stu'bbornness along any line except 
against sin, was rebellion toward God, he finally sub- 
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time he did it, -he grew in grace, and after a while it 
v/as no longer a hard duty but a glad serviee. 

One heautifnl girl that got sanctified in a revival 
I attended in Oklahoma learned this lesson early in 
her experience. On Thursday evenings when she 
wished to go to prayer meeting, she would go out 
and harness her horse and tie it to the hitching post. 
While she would be in the house getting her wraps 
on to go, her father would go out, unhook the horse, 
tie it up in the barn, and go back to the house. 
When this girl would come out and see what had 
happened, she would quietly go back in the house, 
remove her wraps, and go to her room and read her 
Bible and pray. When 'God sav/ she was sufficiently 
tried, He let her go to a Bible school with her fa- 
ther's 'Consent, and she was no longer hindered in 
this way. 

Another lesson we must learn is to wait on God. 
How many missionaries feeling the call of God upon 
them, rush to their field of lablor before they are real- 
ly prepared, without abiding God 's time, and find to 
their dismay their mission a failure. 

Then some who have faithfully labored in a God- 
given field 'for some time without many outward re- 
sults, hastily conclude their work is done, and leave 
the field just as God is about to bless their labors and 
enlarge their borders. 

This waiting on God comes into play constantly. 
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strength and courage for the battle against sin all 
come to the one who waits on Ood. 

Then comes the lesson on obedience. One lady that 
I have read about was impressed of Q-od to give 
$200 to a missionary. It was all the money she had, 
and she thought it impossible that God would re- 
quire the last cent. But what God fails to get, the 
devil always gets. That night thieves 'broke into her 
house and stole that same $200. 

God told another man to give a preacher a certain 
iblack horse that he valued very highly. The man 
refused and the horse died that very afternoon. 
Sometimes the judgment of God is not visited so 
quickly as in these two cases, but the one who dis- 
obeys will not only reap the reward of his disobedi- 
ence, ibut lose his soul as well. Adam and Eve, Ana- 
nias and iSapphira and Saul, and others, are special 
characters set forth in Scripture as those who dis- 
obeyed, and w^ho suffered greatly for their disobedi- 
ence. We might go on and on in this school where 
saints are ripened for their eternal home, where the 
last lesson is learned on the death bed, and the di- 
ploma is received as they pass through the gates. 
Oh, what rejoicing as one Iby one these students leave 
the schoolroom for the fair hills and fields of light, 
there to spend their vacation forever. 



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CHAPTER XXXIV. 
Jim's Experience With Testifying. 

**Well, I will just tell you, 'before I was wholly 
sanctified I couldn't testify, couldn't say two words 
to save my neck ! The man-fearing spirit was that 
strong in me, that try as I would, it just seemed to 
me I was glued to the seat. But praise the Lord, 
that's all over with me now. Strange how the Lord 
can make a feller all over new, and make him just 
the other way he was before. Well, anyhow, when 
I gets up to testify, why, I don't hardly know where 
the stopping place is! The preacher has to say, 
amen, real loud about three or four times in success- 
ion, so's to give me the signal its quitin' time. "Wall, 
you see it is this way. Supposin' I had a family 
doctor that had cured me of some dreadful disease, 
and then was always a looking after me, giving me 
joy and gladness and helping me over the rough 
places. Supposin' there was lots of my neighbors 
sefferin' with that same disease, and wouldn't know 
about my doctor, wouldn't I be awful selfish not to 
tell them about my wonderful doctor? 

''Well, just so with the great Physician Jesus. 
When I get started to tell all He has done for me I 
don^t know when to stop, and sometimes when I sit 
down, I remem'ber a lot of things I forgot to say, and 
I just jumps up once more (no glue on my seat now) 



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and I tells them, I says, 'I just gave you 'the milk be- 
fore and I forgot to give you the cream. ' If you got 
any trouble about talkin' a'bout Jesus, just go to 
Him, and He'll set that talkin' machine all right fer 
ye. The trouble is not with the tongue, but the heart 
is out of lorder; for 'the tongue can talk a plenty 
about other things. Just let Jesus fix up that heart 
a yourn, and presto! you'll belong to the popcorn 
crowd sure enough and you'll pop lively too. 
''Well, praise de Lord!" 



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OHAPTER XXXV. 
Joy. 

Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be 
full. John 16 :24. 

It seems that the most weighty words have the 
least letters. Anyhow, how much these three letters 
mean, "Joy!" There is much in this world called 
joy, but there are only a few things that give joy 
in the sense of real joy, and a very few that 
bring real tears of joy. Among these we might men- 
tion the joy of meeting loved ones, long separated, 
the joy of receiving something much needed, as the 
poor often shed tears of joy upon receiving food and 
clothing, or some kindness is shown them. But what 
are these compared with real Holy Ghost joy? Just 
now I was rocking bahy Paul to sleep, and singing 
that beautiful hymn that never grows old, 

''Sweetest name in Seraph song, 
Sweetest carol ever sung. 
Sweetest name on mortal tongue, 
Jesus, hlessed Jesus." 

And my bosom began to heave, my eyes overflow- 
ed, and I felt like a corner of heaven had been drop- 
ped down into my soul ! iGlory to Jesus ! No won- 
der David said the joy of the Lord was his str^ength. 



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for during one of these seasons it just seems like we 
could run through a troop, and jump over a wall. 
There doesn't seem anything too hard for us to do, 
and we are willing to do anything, he anything, and 
go anywhere, and we just seem to love God more 
than we ever did before, and we could love our fbit- 
terest enemy into the kingdom if it were possible. 

These seasons of joy come at such unexpected 
times and places. Some Scripture text hanging on 
the wall, some one singing a hymn, or perhaps no 
visible cause whatever, and the soul will be hathed 
with the sunshine of heaven, and overflowed with 
joy. Of course they come because we let God have 
His way with us. When He wants a few dollars we 
gladly say, "Yes, Lord"; if He wants us to go and 
sit up with some suffering one we gladly go ; if He 
gives us a burning message, which definitely honors 
Him and full salvation, we deliver it in His name, 
'but what great reward, for services so small ! 

If we had a million dollars, a dozen lives, a hun- 
dred sons and daug'hters for missionaries, houses and 
lands without number, and gave them all, then we 
might merit in a small measure such joy, but when 
we can only give a few dollars, and shed a few tears, 
have only one short life, can only praise Him with 
stammering tongues, ean only tell a very little of 
what He has done for us, how it swells our hearts 
with gratitude when He remembers these little gifts, 
and pays us with His smile, and a cup running over 
with joy ! Oh, glory to God ! 



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OHAPTER XXXVI. 
The Leadership of the Holy Ghost. 

"What a wonderful salvation Ood has planned for 
the redemption of fallen humanity! Who can com- 
prehend its length, breadth, heighth and depth ! It 
reaches the rich and (brings them low ; it reaches the 
poor and brings them up; it saves the moral man, 
and cleans up the worst of sinners, sick or well, black 
or white, old or young. It is so simple and yet so 
complex; so easy to obtain, yet so hard; so minute 
in detail yet so enormous. 

When Jesus was here upon the earth He told His 
disciples that He was then with them, but the time 
would come when he should take His abode within 
them, which occurred on the day of Pentecost, thus 
verifying that verse in I. John 4:4, "Greater is He 
that is in you, than he that is in the world," The 
disciples were justified when Jesus was with them. 
He tells them to rejoice because their names are writ- 
ten in heaven, and they have followed Him in re- 
generation, but we see many signs of indwelling car- 
nality in their lives. They were selfish, proud, fear- 
ful, unbelieving, and even went so far as to forsake 
their blessed Lord, and Peter even denied Him with 
cursing. 

We find altogether a different state of affairs 
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<xod, forgetful of self, and even gave their lives for 
Jesus and the cause. When a soul gets justified the 
Holy Ghost walks with that soul. The devil comes 
with promptings to everything that is evil, and 
checks for everything good. He comes to the boy 
who loved to play base ball and says, ''Come on and 
let^s have a game of ibase ball." The Holy Ghost 
whispers, "You had better not go. The boys will 
cheat, and some will curse and swear, and you will 
feel out of place, and probably backslide." But 
'there is another voic e that clamors loudly. It is the 
voice of the devil's child called carnality. When its 
father comes along and prompts to do evil, it seconds 
the motion; and then there are two voices of evil 
against one voice for good. 

Sometimes with a hard battle the two evil voices 
are overcome, and a victory gained, Ibut more often 
they are the victors, and fthe justified soul is de- 
feated and must repent and get back to God. 

When it is time for testimony the Holy Ghost will 
whisper, "You ought to testify for Jesus," but the 
devil will say, "Maybe you were not converted any- 
way," and the voice inside says, "You may make a 
mistake, and then they will all laugh at you." So 
there is a continual battle with these promptings and 
checks of the devil, the voice inside siding in with 
him, and hankering after the world and worldly 
things. 

Thank God, the blessed Holy Spirit is trying all 
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v/here that inner voice will be destroyed, the Holy 
Ohost Himself moving in and taking control, and 
ever after proving Himself more than a match for 
the devil. Glory to God ! He will lead the justified 
soul into a holiness meeting if possible, to read a 
holiness book, or lead 'him to study his Bible, and try 
to lead him to see the wonderful double cure in the 
Blood for inbred sin as well as actual transgressions. 

One soul that we have read about, saw this Script- 
ure while reading the Bible, " This is the will of God, 
your sanctification. " I. Thess. 4:3, and immediately 
began to apply it to his own experien»ce thus: "Now 
Lford, I never heard a sermon on sanctification ; I 
don't know what it is, ibut your Word says it is your 
will, and if it is your will it must be something 
good, and I want it." Needless to say, he prayed 
through and received. Glory to God! 

Then after the iblessed Holy Ghost has moved in 
and takes complete control, we are safe as long as 
we are submissive in His hands, obey the prompt- 
ings and the checks, and never fail to honor Him. 
The only way to backslide from sanctification is to 
grieve away the Holy Spirit, and this is easily done. 
He is a tender, loving, honored abiding person in our 
hearts, and must be courted, honored, revered and 
obeyed in the minutest detail. The closer we walk 
to Jesus, the more distinct will become his voice and 
the plainer his leadings, until it will be as natural 
to obey Him as it is natural for the tree to bend, 
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Often two are in conversation ; they may be speak- 
ing with grace in their hearts, and their speech may 
he edifying, but suddenly the conversation will lead 
perhaps to the criticism of some child of God, imme- 
diately the Holy Spirit will throv/ out His checks. I 
have had these checks come to me in the middle of a 
sentence, 'but thank God I am learning to look for 
them before I begin to speak, and save myself the 
mortification of stopping my conversation right in 
the middle of a sentence ! 

There is such a fine line between the right and 
the wrong that we cannot always detect it, but the 
Holy Ghost is true to our souls, and always rings the 
alarm hells. And then He is always prompting to do 
good. If there is a sick one in the neighborhood. He 
will immediately offer help in anyway it is possible 
to give. Bodily comfort and help, hut especially so- 
licitous about the soul's welfare, offering prayer and 
spiritual comfort or warning. Will always prompt 
to go to prayer service, or the means of grace in all 
of its departments ; will prompt in prayer, and tes- 
timony and speaking to souls about salvation. Will 
lead in going from one city 'to another; in buying 
property, land, etc. ; indeed, in all the tang^led af- 
fairs lof life. 

We must never be ashamed of Him, whieh means 
a/shamed of holiness and the holiness cause, for this 
is Holy Ghost religion, and this is the Holy Ghost dis- 
pensation. To honor Him only in a holiness meet- 
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where holiness is not preached, is to grieve Him. 
He will lead discreetly there in testimony, if His 
voice is heeded, to the glory of God. 

He floods the Scripture with new light and glory. 
You will understand the Bible more than ever be- 
fore, new and blessed truths opening up before you, 
ever 'and anon. You will see holiness from Genesis 
to Revelations, and the coming of the Lord every- 
where. 

Dear reader, do you ever frequent the theater, sa- 
loon, card table? If so, you are nod; led by the 
Holy Spirit, for He never would lead you there. I 
will come home a little closer. Do you ever give of 
your means to the missionary cause? Do you ever 
weep over the lost? Do you ever pray for your ene- 
mies ? If not you are not led by the Spirit, for He 
would surely lead thus. 

God help us to so abandon ourselves to the blessed 
Holy Ghost that He can rule our hearts and lives to 
His own good will and pleasure, making us fruitful 
unto every good work, working that which is well 
pleasing in His sight. 

Glory to God! Glory to God! 

My heart is now cleansed from sin ; 
I've abandoned myself to the Holy Ghost, 

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CHAPTER XXXVII. 
Temptation. 

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away 
of his own lust and enticed. James 1 :14. 

Temptation is a powerful influence the devil exer- 
■cises over people, which appeals to the desires to 
gratify self. No one is tempted to steal an old pair 
■of shoes, but a nice new pair will appeal to them, 
providing they are in need of them. No one who is 
well fed and always knows where his meals come 
from, is ever tempted to steal fruit from the Italian's 
stand, but those who suffer the pangs of hunger feel 
keenly the temptation. To 'become great and fa- 
mous is not a temptation to those who have already 
attained these lofty heig'hts, hut to those to whom 
such an attainment appeals. To commit suicide does 
not occur to those who have an easy time in this life, 
but to those who hope by putting an end to this life 
that they will forever be free from the sorrows and 
cares that drove them to this final act. 

Temptation, in order to be effectual, must have for 
a foundation a desire, and then this desire must be 
appealed to by something better than it already has. 
Now in the sinner all these carnal desires are wide- 
awake. The desire for shows, theatres, dances, the 
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revenge, etc., are continually receiving attention. 
The devil knows they will look after these things 
themselves, so he does not bother them much, but 
his business in their case is to weave them into a 
life of sin, that down grade will he the result, m^aking 
it harder every year to turn to Jesus; hut the justi- 
fied receive his undivided attention. He knows that 
while all these desires are dormant and kept down 
'by the power of God, as long as the justified watch 
and pray and walk in the light (and get sanctified as 
quickly as possible), hut those same desires are there 
just the same, and he plays upon them, trying to 
resurrect them to activity. He paints the dance in 
the most innocent colors ; holds up the theater in all 
its glittering splendor, gets people to laugh at them, 
and tries, if possible, to awaken the desire for re- 
venge and hatred. 

If he does not succeed along this line, he will try 
the cold water scheme and the man-fearing spirit, 
for he knov/s if he can weaken them, then their 
downfall will be easy. So he tells them they make 
so many mistakes when they pray and testify they 
had hetter let the older ones do that. He tries to 
hinder them from praying in secret and reading 
God's Word. When they are out in public in a 
crowd of scoffers he tries to make them ashamed of 
being Christians; these temptations are continued, 
and come thicker and faster, until the justified soul 
finds he must either get sanctified or backslide. 

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temptations of the sanctified are more fierce and pro- 
longed, their trials are more complex and their bur- 
dens 'heavier^ yet the devil cannot find a single sinful 
desire to play upon. Besides this, he finds that the 
armor the sanctified wear so completely covers them 
that his attacks are usually fruitless. Then on top 
of all this he finds they are hedged in by a wall of 
fire, Ood's wings above them, His everlasting arms 
underneath them, and His angels encamped around 
about them ; above all they are so hid in Christ that 
the enemy can't find them. As long as their eyes are 
on Jesus their all is on the altar; they go forward 
regardless of the cost ; they are perfectly secure, and 
the devil 'knows this, so his temptations are necessa- 
rily planned for the sanctified on an altogether dif- 
ferent tbasis. His first attack is to try by all means 
to get their eyes off of Jesus. He has several ways by 
which he hopes to succeed. One is the persecution 
of loved ones and backslidden church members. 
Here is where he sometimes succeeds. His aim is to 
get the least opening into the cleansed heart, so he 
may inject carnality once more. If he can get their 
eyes off of Jesus on their persecutions, he will then 
insert either anger, resentment, or compromise and 
the work is done. But thank God he fails more often 
than lie succeeds. Jesus so garrisions the soul with 
love, joy and peace that they love and pity their per- 
secutors and pray f or them rather than answer back, 
in this case they grow stronger all the time. 

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'his delight when he can cause some leader to fall, he- 
canse they always drag others down with them. He 
will tell them that even if they are sanctified they 
can't keep so, and points out to them others who 
have fallen from high states of grace ; then he tries 
to make them doubt their own experience, and points 
out to them their own human weaknesses and makes 
them think they are carnal tendencies yet in the soul. 
Then he will point out some one who has heen in the 
way a long time, and has made good progress as the 
standard to measure hy, and 'because they can't 
measure up, make them think they are not sanctified 
at all. He will tell them their prayers are not an- 
swered, 'God doesn't bless them like He does others, 
trying, if possible, to get their eyes off of Jesus on 
their experience and get them to doubting. How 
many have been wrecked here ! When possible, he 
will sweep a great many off of their feet hy agitating 
a third blessing of fire, gift of tongues, etc. 

Well, when these attacks have heen safely over- 
come, he tries a new plan. Now his idea is to get 
one's eyes off of Jesus on their good works, and 
pride creeps in. During all this time the soul has 
been growing in grace, souls have been won to God, 
and prayers and testimonies have been delivered in 
the power and unction of the Holy Ghost. 

The devil says, ''That was a fine testimony. See 
how it has stirred hearts ; you are making fine prog- 
ress. ' ' Oh, how carefully one must walk now ! Af- 
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to reach a place where his God-given powers and 
talents will he fully appreciated. This is where the 
most danger comes. A desire to he at one 's best for 
God, and be in the place where they can do the most 
good, is at once the right and proper thing, but 
wherever pride is mixed in, the desire is usually di- 
rected to loftiness of the position over other folks, 
the money it will bring, and the comforts to be had. 
The man who wants to live at his 'best for God is 
just as willing to labor in some logging camp, some 
obscure African village, or some mission in the slums, 
as preach in big camps and conventions ; but the one 
who desires a high place for the sake of pride, will 
seek only the camps and conventions. So if we are 
not careful to walk softly before God, before we 
know it the d-evil has put pride into our hearts, and 
we might just as well stop short off, get down in 
utter humiliation, repent and start over again. Our 
loud preaching and acting like we had the real thing 
won't make it so; for while we may deceive some 
folks, we cannot deceive God. 

Now while these different tests which the devil 
brings up m^y be overcome and new plans laid and 
tried, yet he will resort to the old ones again and 
again. If he can't get us to doubt we ever were 
sanctified, he will try to make us believe we back- 
slide somewhere, and that is why we are having a 
dry spell. (He will work upon our minds, and flash 
through them unholy thoughts, and then try to make 
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is pride. If he can only get ns to take the least 
glory to ourselves, he has a loophole and the rest is 
easy. How necessary then it is to be humble, will- 
ing to be nothing for God, and giving Him all the 
glory continually for anything He lets us do for Him. 

He uses dark clouds, things to cross our wishes, 
and disappoint our expectations, tries to bring dis- 
couragement and discontent, to destroy our peace, 
hut through it all if v/e hut remember one thing we 
will come out more than conquerors, and that is keep 
our eyes on Jesus. He is our Priest, Prophet, King ; 
our Counselor, Guide and 'Shepard; our Savior, 
Sanctifier, Keeper; our Brother, Friend and Bride- 
groom; our Light, Life, Way and Door; our Re- 
deemer, 'Captain and Pilot. Glory to His precious 
name. Let us trust Him fully. 



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CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
Testings. 

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for 
when he is tried, he shall receive a crown of life. 

James 1 :12, 

Tests are put to everything that is made. Bridges 
are tested: great loads heavier than any they are 
ever supposed to bear are passed over them, to test 
their durahility. Watches are tested by cold and 
heat; students and scholars must be examined at 
each successive grade. 

Thus it is with God's children. Not only will their 
faith he tested to the utmost, hut their consecration, 
their determination to go through, and their humil- 
ity. It takes all these to receive full salvation, and 
then is added our testimonj^ This the devil will be 
permitted to test first. We arise from the altar and 
we testify G-od has sanctified us wholly. The devil 
says, ''Well, we will see," and he does all he can to 
arouse hatred, anger, jealousy and pride. If any 
of these are still in the heart they will surely mani- 
fest themselves, and we will know we were not 
sanctified; but if we can keep sweet, humble and 
true, we know the work was done. I know a lady 
who washed three days after she was sanctified. 
The clothesline broke seven times, but she had the 
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The devil does not stop at the first testimony. Yon 
go to prayer meeting, get blessed, and feel like you 
could go to the stake for Jesus' sake, rise up and 
say you are determined by the grace of Ood to go 
through. You are again a target for the enemy. 
He will shoot at you from the black artillery of hell 
all the fiery darts he can muster. You will feel like 
saying, ' ' Oh Lord, I can 't stand it any longer, ' ' but 
you must not say that, or you will surely be defeated ; 
say, ''Lord, help me. I will be true by thy grace," 
and the devil will flee, for he is a coward every time. 

Never forget that Jesus is always with you. Yes, 
nearer than you are willing perhaps to helieve, and 
the devil can not go one hair's hreadth more than 
Ood allows him. He will test you on your consecra- 
tion. You are living in a community where there is 
little or no holiness preaching. You read or hear of 
a holiness meeting going to be held not far from 
your home. Your heart longs to go, hut the devil 
will hring up all kinds of obstacles to hinder you. 
He will say, ''Now, look here, your husbond has no 
one to get his meals for him, and he has to work 
hard; it will take carfare, and you can read your 
Bi'ble and pray just as well at home." Then let us 
look at this from another standpoint. Supposing 
this same woman was to get a telegram, telling her 
that her daughter was dying, and to come at once. 
Would she hesitate on account of carfare? Would 
she stop because her husband needed her to cook for 
him, or would she get some one to fill her place, or 



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fix things so that he could get along without her? 
Ah yes, nothing but sickness would keep her from 
her dying daughter's side, she would even borrow 
the money for car fare if necessary. This w^ould 
prove that she loved her daughter more than Jesus. 
It would prove that she could have gone to the camp 
meeting if she had just thought so. But she says, 
"The latter case was the more important." Ah, 
that is where the devil deceives his thousands. Any- 
thing that will strengthen our faith and bring heav- 
en nearer to us is very, very important. Many a 
man or woman if they knew they could make a coup- 
le of hundred dollars by going to camp meeting 
would do it ; but they fail to see that their presence, 
■their prayers and influence in the camp will mean 
many hundreds of dollars in their favor at the judg- 
ment bar of Q-od. They may lose a few of earth's 
paltry means of exchange here, but they will gain a 
thousand fold in heaven's icurrency that will last 
forever ! 

Many a soul has gone to camp meeting and re- 
ceived light and help, that if they had remained at 
home and failed to receive, would have lost their 
souls in hell. 

How many times we let our human love for our 
families get between us, and the divine love for Grod ; 
lour consecration does not bear the test. Many 
times it has been necessary to leave the younger chil- 
dren at home with the eldest 'boy when we would go 
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sweetly and never murmur a complaint, when I 
knew they would like to have gone with us so much, 
and would watch the teams as they passed one af- 
ter the other on their way to church, until it seemed 
the whole neighborhood had gone to church and they 
were left hehind ! Oh, how my heart would ache 
for them! If they had scolded and fretted about 
having to stay at home it would not have 'heen so 
hard, ^but ibecause they bore it so patiently and lov- 
ingly, waving their little hands good-bye as we 
passed out of sight, it was quite a test indeed; but 
we looked up into the face of our blessed Lord and 
said, "All for your sake," and we knew He could 
comfort their hearts and keep all harm away from 
them. 

Ah, that is the test of consecration. That tells the 
story, whether or not hus'band, wife and children, fa- 
ther or mother are on the altar! Some think that 
when husband opposes and threatens their life, that 
is when they are tested, as to whether he is on the 
altar or not. Oh no ; that is when the test comes as 
to whether your life is on the altar, whether you 
would be willing to go against your husband's wish- 
es and put your life into his hands, or say good-bye 
to your home. It is when husband is good and kind, 
but he doesn't see just as you see, and you must still 
obey Ood and seemingly go against his wishes, that 
is when he is all on the altar, and you "will not let 
him come between you and God. 

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to hold a meeting. The children are not so well, and 
wife 'hates to see him go, hut will not complain. He 
knows her thoughts as well as though he read them 
in a hook, knows she will have to lose sleep, perhaps 
will be fearful to stay alone at night, perhaps has 
not much money to buy food for the family, but he 
looks up to Jesus, and with a tender voice says, *'Yes 
Lord, I will go. You left Father's house and came 
down here for me ; I will go for you. ' ' This is real 
consecration. The wife that opposes her husband 
and makes life miserable for him, only makes it 
easy for him to leave her, and obey Grod. The ten- 
der, loving wife who is a comfort and a blessing, 
makes it hard for husband to tear away from her 
side, especially when she is liable to have more to 
look after than her strength is capable of, and it 
means real consecration to obey Ood and go forth 
under these circumstances. 

Ah, it is when we trample under foot our own de- 
sires, and the wishes of friends and loved ones that 
it icounts. Many fail here. While they can stand 
any amount of persecution and go through, yet they 
give way to persuasion, and the wishes of loved ones 
and go down. Little Johnnie will say, ''Oh, mamma, 
don't go to prayer meeting tonight; stay home with 
me," and mamma will stoop down, kiss the little 
'cheek and say, ''All right, I will," never thinking 
that she is turning down Jesus when she does it. 
When we get sanctified we become a soldier of the 
cross, and every prayer meeting or service is a battle 



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eit'her won or lost for God. It requires the faithful- 
ness of every soldier in order to win, not only that 
the enemy may be defeated at the meeting, but that 
he may be defeated in their own lives at home. So 
she permits her little son to get between her, and her 
duty to Grod, her neighbors and herself. God put 
the test to 'her, and she did not stand. 

An endless chain is only as strong as the weakest 
link, no matter 'how strong the other links may be. 
We might take a heavy log chain and tie it with a 
cotton string. Anything stronger than the cotton 
string will break the chain. So it is with our con- 
secration; if we are weak along any line, as soon as 
we are tested on that weak point, we will fail if we 
do not watch and pray, and strengthen that weak 
place by implicit obedience to God. As soon as we 
find our weak places, we need to fortify them by 
extra determination to get the victory; and when 
we lose a blessing, be determined to profit by our 
lesson and not permit it to occur again. 

God will permit us to be tested again and again 
on a given point, until we so eompletely have the 
victory that it no longer proves a test to us. 

I know a husband and wife who were saved and 
sanctified and living for God, and who lived together 
in beautiful harmony. But once in a while when 
things went wrong, husband would see one side of 
the matter and wife would see the other side. Both 
would be right, but each failed to see where the other 
was right. It was a test. At first the very fact that 



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anything should occur to cross them made them 
feel bad and they couldn't understand it, hut as the 
days and weeks came and went, they learned that it 
was only the enemy that was trying to separate 
them, and cause them to lose victory in their home 
life. Every time one of these unfortunate misun- 
derstandings occurred, it became easier for each to 
exercise more and more charity, and be willing to 
give way to one another, until these tests were few 
and far between, and after awhile ceased to come. 
There were still misunderstandings, ibut they were 
mutually ta'ken up together, and failed to be tests 
any longer. It is the devil's business to destroy, if 
possible, confidence in one another. Be it in the 
family circle, or in God's family, he will do it every 
time he has a chance, and it is ailways fatal to real 
spirituality. 

How many get up in class and say, "saved, sancti- 
fied and kept," when they live a cat and dog life at 
home, saying cutting words and bitter things one 
to the 'other. If we fail to keep sweet at home, oar 
public life will be a failure, no matter how much we 
may try to hide it, because God knows when no one 
else does, just what our innermost lives are, and He 
has promised if we serve Him in secret, as well as 
openly, that He will bless us openly. 

These tests come to us in every way imaginable, 
because they many times are just the natural order 
of things, but the devil will take them, and use them 
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1 remember one fall we 'had some additions built 
onto the house, some new furniture brought in, and 
things wer€ nice and eozy. It was Saturday night. 
I had just finished cleaning the house, laid the nice 
new carpet, and the kitchen floor was white enough 
to eat off of. It was raining hard outdoors, and 1 
was very careful that none of the family should 
bring in mud on my clean floors. Suddenly we heard 
a call from the back yard, and there we found a 
whole wagon load of folks who came to see us 
through that awful rain. Well, you can imagine 
how I felt. I wasn't sanctified then, and the fact 
of these being three or four holiness preachers, per- 
haps had more to do with my test than it would 
have otherwise. But, be that as it may, it seemed 
when those muddy shoes set down on my carpet in 
all directions, they just pressed that much harder 
on my heart. Perhaps Grod had to strike at a vital 
place first, for before the week was over I had died 
out to new carpets, clean floors and all the world. 
Praise God forever ! My carpet was ruined. It w^as 
muddy all that week, and being cold, it was neces- 
sary to spend the whole time indoors, and so many 
people, soon made it look like it was ten years old, 
but I didn't care after Jesus had sanctified my soul. 
No, all I possessed was His, to be used for His glory, 
and if it is His will that my carpets shall look old be- 
fore their time, I say, **Amen, Lord, they are yours; 
do with them as seemeth good in thy sight." 

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they give the devil a chance to keep them in hot 
water constantly on account of their housework. 

If company comes on wash day, instead of being 
sweet ah out it, and believing that God orders all 
things for our good, they allow worry and fretting 
to enter their hearts. Although they may try to 
hide it from their company, ye't if they are spiritual 
people they can't help 'but see that the offering is not 
all on the altar, and their hostess is not on victory's 
side, although she may claim to ibe sanctified. 

If we are sanctified our time belongs to the Lord 
as well as anything else, and we are willing to drop 
washing, or anything, anytime He has something else 
for us to do, for we are only washing for Him, if we 
are truly His. It is just as easy to stop and cook 
dinner for one of His little ones He has sent in, as 
to continue washing, for He will make it a blessing to 
us, if we only obey Him. 

Then come tests on reputation, honor, etc. A 
preacher will go to a meeting. Perhaps he won't be 
n'oti<jed much. True he wears his white vest, and 
everyone knows he is a preacher, but somehow he is 
slighted and overlooked, some even failing to shake 
hands. Ah, how the devil will come around now 
with his smooth, oily words! ''They didn't treat 
you ri^ht at all. I wouldn't go hack to that meet- 
ing any more. You could have preached a better ser- 
mon by far, than the man that did preach, ' ' and so if 
possible he will get the tempted one to look at his 
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those who seemingly slighted him. He will find if he 
listens to the old enemy of his soul that his reputa- 
tion and honor are not on the altar. 

Ah it means so much to he dead, to have all on 
the altar who is Christ, then no matter how the devil 
comes there is complete victory hy trusting Jesus, 
and going through. Ah, yes, the Lord will have a 
tried people. 

A merchant who wishes to promote one of his 
clerks to a higher position does not select the one 
who comes late to his work, shifts duties on the 
shoulders of another that he ought to iperform, but 
he takes one that has been tested and tried and 
proved reliable in every respect. 

When a wagon maker wants a good piece of sea- 
soned timber he does not go to a tree surrounded by 
a lot of other trees, but he takes the one standing 
alone, one that has stood the test of many a storm, 
whose fiber has been made tough and strong by the 
resista£Qce called forth by the many tempests that 
have passed over it. 

When a general is needed to control an army, Un- 
cle Sam does not select a man that has failed to 
stand the test in the crucial moment, w'ho complains 
of the hardships of army life, and proves to be a 
baby instead of a soldier, but he selects one who has 
won honors on the battle-fieM for deeds of bravery 
and heroism, one who made his mark as a man to be 
depended upon. 

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women \^h'0 have laughed at impossibilities, 'braved 
storms of opposition and adversity, labored and 
toiled, and stood the test of years. Just so with our 
dear heavenly Father. He has many places to he 
filled and supplied in the skies. Positions that de- 
mand the hest, grace can produce. Callings that an- 
gels mig'ht covet. In 'order that these may be filled, 
He is doing His hest by machinery not made with 
^hands to fit and prepare fit subjects to fill these 
places. 

The patience machine that grinds out that pre- 
cious, soft, yielding metal is in operation every day. 
You can see it working in the shop, kitchen, field, in- 
deed every where. Sometimes it squeaks and groans 
and refuses to work, and shows a great need of oil, 
then Jesus pours in grace, and lo ! it runs to per- 
fection. 

Then comes the long-suffering machine. It turns 
out a substance much like patience, but it is more 
endurable. When patience gives out, long-suffering 
is still on the rack. How it will shine and sparkle 
in the sunlight of heaven in that day when He mak- 
eth up His jewels! 

Ah yes! Only the tested and tried ever reach 
Heaven. God eannot he partial and let one get to 
Heaven easier than another, but all must go through 
with a determination to make Heaven, if it cost them 
their lives, willing to live for Him, lor die for Him, 
as the <?ase may be. 



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CHAPTER XXXIX. 

Danger Signals. 

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things 
before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the 
error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfast- 
ness.. .11. Peter 3:17. 

The seaman w'ho has spent thirty or forty years of 
his life on the seas, and has crossed the great oceans 
in all directions, soon learns the dangerous places, 
and learns to observe the danger signals put there 
for his ^benefit. 

True, we pass this way but once; we never can 
undo what we have done, nor can w^e do what we 
have left undone when this journey is over. Yet, as 
the days go by, we learn to observe the dangerous 
places by certain signs God has mercifully placed 
within reach for our help and instruction. Some- 
times we come to a crossroad in our spiritual experi- 
ence, and we hardly know which way to take, but 
by quietly going over our past lives and considering 
some of the means by which O-od revealed to us the 
right way, we will usually fmd that His warnings 
are pretty much the same all along the journey of 
life. 

Just as God takes the trials and testings the devil 
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just so the devil takes God's blessings and v/ill make 
them the means hy which he will wreck our souls if 
we are not prayerful and watchful. 

Take praise for instance. Many a careworn 
preacher who has been criticised and kicked from 
pillar to post, has felt the warm love of God well 
up fresh in his soul as some dear saint of God has 
stepped up to him, and said with real earnestness in 
her voice, "Oh brother, you don't know how much 
good your sermon did me this morning. This is just 
when the danger signal rang out clear and plain; 
many a saint who sailed serenel}^ on, and never 
■minded the sharp rocks of persecution got stranded 
on the sands of praise. 

It is something that is so subtle that before one is 
aware they are in shallow water and stuck in a sand 
bank. 

Many a saint has wondered at the severe treat- 
ment they received from every quarter. The Lord 
would wonderfully bless them in prayer and testi- 
mony, refresh their souls with the dew of heaven, 
but on every hand they would be criticised and mis- 
understood, even slandered and false reports circu- 
lated. But they found later on that God could not 
trust them with praise and flattery until He had so 
ground them down, so humiliated them again and 
again, that He could then turn them loose and say 
to the devil, ''Now do your worst, flatter and praise 
all you please, roll honor at their feet in great 
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to Ood, for an Omnipotent Christ who is able to 
save to the uttermost and then keep saved. 

Now praise, in order to 'be dangerous, must come 
from a dangerous source. A little ragged newsboy 
stepping up to a preacher and complimenting him 
on his sermon would hardly be recognized as very 
flattering, because the newsboy would hardly he 
considered a judge, hut let a lawyer of note step 
up and say, ''Parson, you argued the case well; 
done me lots of good." Ah, we are in shallow wa- 
ter now, the danger signal is already hoisted; let's 
keep head down, and make for deep water, or we 
will land in a sand bank. 

Many have landed in sand ibanks. If they had 
been wrecked on the sharp rocks of persecution, 
they would have been torn to pieces, and gone down 
to the 'bottom, but the proud ship fast in the sand 
bank still floats her ^banners in the breeze ; she holds 
her head up just as high as ever, but she is fast, 
useless and doomed. Just so with many who have 
yielded to the subtle influence of praise. They have 
become proud of their achievements instead of giv- 
ing all the glory to Ood, and are fast in a sand 
bank. They still go on prea/ching, many of them 
still go on professing, 'but that is as far as they get. 
Their usefulness is over, and soon they will !be 
wrecks on the sand of time, unless they repent. 

Praise is all right when sent of Ood to cheer up 
and act like a tonic on a wornout, discouraged spirit, 
hnt one needs to hunt the closet and keep out of 



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sight. Many court praise and seek honor, like one 
would seek gold, but such are always shallow Chris- 
tians. The true saint seeks only the smile of God, 
and when other smiles are thrown in, he gives all 
the glory to Ood, and appreciates the praise of the 
newsboy as well as the lawyer. 'Beware of pride, 
self-esteem, and self-sufficiency, if they ever get you 
in their grasp, they will hold you like a vice, and it 
will be 'a miracle if you are ever saved. Like the 
ship in the sand bank, lashed with the waves of the 
ocean until she is all 'broken to pieces, it will only be 
a matter of time until you, 'broken and bruised by 
the mad waves of worldliness, will succumb never 
to rise again. 

Persecution is another danger signal. It is a se- 
vere warning to beware of discouragement, losing 
hope, retaliation, douT^ts, etc. All these things lie 
in its wake, and when persecution comes, seek the 
closet as 'before, but instead of hiding away, smile at 
Satan's rage, keep sweet, hopeful, joyful and keep 
your eyes on Jesus, the Divine Pilot that will ever 
steer you clear of all the sh^arp rocks that show their 
cutting, jagged edges and their slippery, slimy sides 
in criticisms, backbitings and false friendships. 

Another signal of approaching danger is useful- 
ness in Ood^s vineyard. Many a true saint is housed 
in, shut up, tied down, kept close, until they long to 
be free to do G-od service. They read of the needs 
of the foreign field, but they can't go ; they hear the 
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'burn with love and their eyes overflow with tears, 
but that is as far as God permits them to go toward 
satisfying that craving for usefulness, besides pour- 
ing out their hearts to God for some open door, some 
means hy which they may be a blessing to this lost, 
sorrow-stricken, pain-ridden world. 

But God is getting them ready. So many have 
been pushed out into the work of the Lord before 
they were strong enough to carry the burdens, en- 
dure the toil, understand the situations that iseemed 
so trying, and made such inrouds into their stock of 
love, patience and faith, that before they accom- 
plished anything, they gave it up as a bad joh. 
These are not the folks that particularly eome un- 
der the head of being in danger from over useful- 
ness. These people are really used of God. They 
are in demand everywhere. Much stock is taken in 
their work, and they are promoted rapidly from one 
responsihle position to another. 

The dangerous whirlpools here are self-impor- 
tance, relying and leaning to one's own understand- 
ing, no time to pray, jealous of another's success, 
wanting to run things. How many have been sucked 
down in a whirlpool of self-importance ! God en- 
trusted them with great issues, He ^blessed their 
feeble efforts, but instead of letting Him hold the 
reins, they took things into their own hands, and 
soon were lost sight of altogether. When our fam- 
ily grew, so there were two or three little ones, it 
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at play. It was necessary many times for him to 
warn, command and entreat. After 'a while it be- 
'Came a habit with him, and finally he was continu- 
ally, Ibossing, and scolding the little ones so much, 
that I had to call a halt, and try, if possible, to break 
him of this domineering habit. So it is with God's 
<jhildren. They forget that they are only channels, 
servants, go-'betweens, hurden-<bearers, little messen- 
gers, tools, empty vessels, etc. They hegin to get 
their eyes off of Jesus upon their work. Success in- 
flates them ; failure discourages them. They get too 
busy to pray; because one sermon was used of God 
to bring a dozen or more souls to the altar, they try 
it again, instead of looking to God for a fresh one, 
they get their eyes on some lofty position, and if 
they fail to get it, are jealous of the one who does 
obtain it, 'and so are swallowed up in these whirl- 
pools of the devil's manufacture, placed hy him right 
in the middle of a great ocean of usefulness to God. 

If doors swing open, calls come, money gets plen- 
tiful, faith is rewiarded, walk softly, slowly quietly, 
God knew ten thousand years ago the very moment 
the door would swing open and let you have the 
desire of your heart. He knew that if you kept 
humhle, patient and true, that you could accomplish 
much in His kingdom. There is no need to rush 
headlong into something that has heen years in get- 
ting ready, for the help you could hring it. While 
it is true the King's business require th haste, yet 
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King 's business is. Our 'business is to keep our eyes 
on Jesus, and He will do the rest. The artist paint- 
ing a picture keeps his eye on the landscape, and 
endeavors to put it us nearly as possible just as it 
is on canvas. He does not expect to improve on it 
so, if we keep our eyes on our divine Pattern, we 
will be able to reproduce it in our lives, to the bless- 
ing and comfort of this poor, shivering world. Je- 
sus will draw all men to Him just in proportion as 
He is lifted up in our lives, conversation and in the 
pulpit. 

iSometimes God will permit one of His little ones 
to do something great for Him, and then take them 
home to heaven before it has a chance to spoil them. 
One thing is sure, if we are faithful in the little 
things (and every one can do their share of these) 
God will in His own good time intrust us with the 
greater things, and He has grace to keep us 
humble, obedient and true, and strength to 
keep us strong, icourageous, and faithful, when du- 
ties press upon us. He keeps us on the lookout for 
unwary whirlpools. 

Prayer is the great means of safety in any danger, 
for the "devil flees, when he sees the weakest saint 
upon his knees." 



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CHAPTER XL. 
Touchstones. 

Ezamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. 
II. Gor. 13 :5. 

Most people measure their spiritual condition by 
their feelings. This would be all right provided the 
thermometer of our feelings would rise and fall with 
our spiritual condition and nothing else had any 
bearing upon them, but this is far from the case. 

Our feelings are affected iby the condition of our 
bodies as well as our souls. Many a nev\^ly sanctified 
person has ^arisen in the morning v^ith a severe nead- 
ache, and on account of the depression of their feel- 
ings concluded they were backslidden. 

Then it pleases God sometimes to test our faith by 
giving us a long dry spell. There is no imction, no 
ecstacy, no overflow, and sometimes it will last for 
weeks. The devil will come with clouds, and black 
darkness enveloping the soul, and whisper either, 
**You never were sanctified," or, ''You have back- 
slidden." The less one tinkers with their feelings, 
the stronger they will become in faith. No plant 
would ever grow if it were continually pulled up by 
the roots and examined. The one who depends on 
his feelings is liable to seek joy and a good feeling, 
which puts him in great danger of fanaticism; be- 



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cause the devil is ever on hand to deceive. Posing 
as an angel of light he can imitate the Holy Ohost 
and give a false joy, a false security, even a shout 
and apparent good feelings, but they don't last, and 
the deceived soul plunges into darkness and despair. 

Not so with the one who is dead to his feelings. 
Come sorrow or joy, pain or pleasure^ loss or gain, 
praise and criticism, they are always the same. A 
deep, sweet peace that nothing ruffles, or disturbs, 
such an one is a problem to the devil, but because of 
his unbounded faith in God and not his feelings, is 
able to withstand every fiery dart of the evil one. 
But are not there some signs, or touchstones by 
which we may know whether or not v/e are in the 
faith ? Ah yes, thank Ood ! The Bible is ever our 
guide; in it are the words of life. In it we read, 
"In everything give thanks." I don't think it ever 
fails, that when one backslides they immediately get 
crankj^, irritable, fault-finding and -.blue ; the oppo- 
site of a meek, humble, thankful spirit. One who is 
truely sanctified is just as thankful for a scanty meal 
as an elaborate one. They rejoice dn Grod's goodness 
even when things do not go just as they think they 
ought to go, knowing that He knows best and has 
some plan in view which will work out for their 
good. 

Then the Bible says again, "Let your conversation 
be in heaven," as Bro. Reese says, "A great part of 
our lives is spent in speech, if we fail to speak of 
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we do of other things, something is radically 
wrong." Out of the ahundance of the heart the 
mouth speaketh. The man who worships horses 
will continually talk ahout horses; the woman who 
is the walking newspaper of the neighborhood will 
always have plenty of gossip to pour into unwary 
ears, 'but the soul who loves Jesus supremely will 
•ever be speaking of Him whom it loves to talk about. 

They do not need to be a bore on religion either. 
The soul that walks with G-od usually has a message, 
and when G-od gives a message, He also prepares a 
heart to receive it, and without any effort on the 
part of the messenger, but a heart fully yielded, and 
an ear ever ready to hear God's voice. The heart 
ready for the message will usually throw open ihe 
door, and the message is delivered, with trust in 
Ood for the results. 

Another touchstone is our thoughts. The Word 
can be our guide here also, which says (II. Cor. 10 :5) 
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedi- 
ence of Christ. Every sanctified m'an or woman or 
child is willing at any time to have their thoughts 
weighed in the balance of G-od's unwavering justice. 
They would be willing to have them thrown on can- 
vas, and displayed before the world at any time, 
which also will occur at the judgment day. The 
thoughts of the sanctified are on heaven, the work 
that 'Cod has given them to do, and much silent pray- 
er, the heart lifted in adoration and praise, or plead- 
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God's word. Thus if our thoug'hts dwell on the im- 
perfections of others, on making money, dress, and 
are thoug'hts of hatred, envy, jealousy, etc., we can 
know that the fountain is still unclean and the sanct- 
ifying 'blood has not reached our souls. 

Then we can know whether or not we are in the 
faith 'by the measuring rod of love. "Love your en- 
emies, ' ' is the hardest rule, but thank God the truly 
sanctified can measure up. They not only love the 
lovable, but the unlovable; they not only love the 
members of their particular church, but love every 
child of God regardless of race, color, or social po- 
sition, and they love the heathen they have never 
seen. Do you love everybody? Do you love God 
more than father, mother, hus'band or wife, child, 
sister or brother? God help us to 'answer these 
questions honestly from the heart. They love the 
prayer meeting. They would rather miss a meal for 
the body, than miss the meal at the prayer meeting 
for the soul. 

There are also things they do not love. Love not 
the world, neither the things of the world. They do 
not love jewelry, extravagant clothes, fine homes, 
social prestige, the greatest honor, and a thousand 
and one things which all belong to the devil's king- 
dom. They are pilgrims -and strangers seeking a 
better country; do not care to stop even a day to 
ease up, and set up an abiding place, but are jour- 
neying ever onward and upward, never making their 
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One of tlie main touchstones is being dead to the 
worild and alive unto God. For ye are dead and your 
life is hid with Christ in God. Dead to the wishes 
of everyone 'but God. True, the sanctified are the 
most obliging folks you ever met, T^hen it is possible 
<to serve God when they are serving you, but they 
will never serve the devil while they are doing you 
service. 

You can threaten them, criticise them, slander 
them, and speak all m'anner of evil to them and of 
them, ibut you will find a dead man or woman a very 
'hard thing to pick a quarrel with, so you better not 
try it on sanctified fo-lks. After you are done pour- 
ing the devil's poison over them, they are liable to 
pour honey over you, and make you feel quite mis- 
erable, while they are running over with joy. 

The next touchstone we will mention, and which 
is one of the greatest importance is the witness of 
the Spirit. He is ever faithful, never failing to 
put His finger on a sore spot, if there is one. It will 
hurt, hut the quickest way to get healed, is to con- 
fess, ask forgiveness and get under the ibiood. When 
all is well the Witness of the Spirit will he clear and 
■bright, but we must learn the difference hetween 
condemnation of the Spirit and accusation of the 
devil. When the devil comes with accusations, he 
will put darkness all over you, ibemuddle you, and 
try to discourage you. You will remember nothing 
wrong that you have done, although you have exam- 
ined your life carefully, and you scarcely know 
where you are. 



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But when the Spirit comes with eondemnation 
He shows yon exactly where you did wrong and 
what you mus't do to get hack. In this ease, never 
lose any time, the quicker you obey the hetter, for 
there is no use in parleying with Ood. In the other 
case when the devil comes with darkness to test your 
faith, just hold still, look up to Jesus, tell Him you 
will trust Him to take you through; tell the devil 
you know he is a liar and point him to the place 
where the old man died, and he will flee from you. 
Never harbor doubts. Don't give them house room, 
for if you entertain one, he will hring a dozen for 
company next time, as Bro. Fuge says. 

Then there is still another way in which we may 
know whether or not we have really the joy of the 
Lord, which is our strength. 'No matter how loud we 
pray; or how long our testimony, if 'Our lives are 
not right at home, it is all false. Bro. Newiberry 
says, "Jump just as higth as you please, but be sure 
you walk straight when you come down.'' Now 
the true, real joy of the liord comes spontaneously 
at any place and at any time, there is no desire to 
show off, and make a good impression, 'but praises to 
God and a great love for Him is all that prompts it. 
It is like an artesian well flowing up, without any 
effort, and Messing everybody within reach. Not so 
with the false shout. It is worked up, sometimes re- 
quiring quite a long time of jerking, twisting, tremb- 
ling, and finally breaks loose with an unearthly 
scream that scares people instead of blessing them, 



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and is meant to put a g^ood impression on those who 
are not acquainted with the shouter, for they know 
very well it is of no use to shout 'before those who 
live near them, for their lives are not what they 
ought to 'he, and there is no faith in their outward 
manifestations. 

Ah if we have the real thing, we do not go about 
trying to establish our ow^n righteousness by teilling 
folks how good we are, what wonderful things we 
have aceomplished, trying, if possible, to make them 
believe we are sanctified when we are not. People 
know us better than we think they do, and our much 
talking only helps real spiritual people to locate us 
•all the better. But if we know Him whom to know 
is eternal life ; if we are hid with Christ in God, we 
'Care not what people say or think of us, just so we 
know Grod is well pleased with our lives. 

Our conversations, prayers and testimonies, and 
everyday lives will be conformed to His will, and not 
to the pleasing of ourselves or others ; neither to ad- 
vertise our own goodness, 'but to exalt, honor and 
adore Him who has done so much for us. Let us 
not stop short of a ''know so" salvation, something 
that we do not have to keep, but keeps us, satisfies 
every longing of the soul, qualifies for service, and 
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CHAPTEK XLI 

: " How We May Lose Sanctification. 

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of Grod. Eph. 4 :38. 

Dr. God'bey contends that we cannot lose sanctifi- 
cation and justification at the same time : that sanct- 
ification must be lost first by grieving away the Holy 
Ohost, thus once more permitting depravity to come 
into the heart, and then justification is lost by the 
first sin commited, the outcome of the installed de- 
pravity. 

Be that as it may, we know that sanctification may 
be lost. How many dear people throng our annual 
camp meetings with the one purpose of regaining 
once more the power, unction and liberty they once 
enjoyed. They realize the keen edge of their expe- 
rience is gone; the dove of peace has flown; the joy 
bells are silent, and the blessed Holy G^host has va- 
cated. 

We all know that we are sanctified by conse<;ra- 
tion and faith, then in order to backslide we must 
tamper with our consecration and fail to trust God. 

When we consecrated ourselves to Go'd, we turned 
everything over to Him. How many people grieve 
the 'blessed Holy Ghost by failing to let Him use 
their tongues in testimony? I tbelieve it was John 
Fletcher that lost his experienee four times by failing 



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to testify to it. The last time he regained the ex- 
perience he said, ''Now the whole world shall hear 
about it." Then there was a certain woman I knew 
in Kansas that failed to let the Holy G'host use her 
feet. She was impressed again and again to go and 
visit a certain sick lady, but she kept putting it off 
again and again, until she not only lost the impress- 
ion, hut also her sanctification. Our tongues, feet, 
hands, money, all helong to God and just as soon as 
we fail to obey even in little things we tamper with 
the offering on the altar and will lose out. 

Then when we were sanctified we permitted G-od to 
smash all our idols and to love Him supremely. Now 
it will 'be the devil's greatest pleasure to get our eyes 
•off of Jesus onto some object, and finally get our 
affections twined around it. It was our good fortune 
to get hold of some fine full-Jblooded Barred Eocks. 
They were beautiful to look at and so tame. I would 
feed them, sit down and watch them a half hour at 
a time, until I found my affections going out to 
those fowls. I immediately called a halt, and now 
although we have still a nice flock of them, there is 
no danger of their usurping any place in my heart. 
I had the same test with my flowers. They would 
freeze again and again, until I was so dead to them 
I didn't care whether they lived or not, then it was 
I had all the flowers I wanted. I knew a lady who 
had a beautiful house full of flowers. She had a 
lovely home, and every window seemed to be full of 
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done in giving bouquets to sick folks, and giving 
her friends slips from lier. plants ! But she would 
take her frineds 'about and show them all her lovely 
flowers without offering one of them, unless it was 
a half faded one or so. Tet she professed to be 
sanctified ! ^She professed to love Jesus with all her 
heart, and didn't know that when she kept back her 
flowers from His little ones, that she was keeping 
them from Him. 

Then there are women whom God has wonderfully 
sanctified who sometimes are in danger of losing the 
Messing hy permitting their husbands to get between 
them and God. Hushand must be on the altar the 
same as everything else, and while his wishes must 
be considered, God's wishes must be the rule and 
not the exception. Then there are others who fairly 
worship their housework. They can't go to prayer 
meeting if the dishes happen to be unwashed. If 
company comes Sunday morning they must stay 
home from church to cook a big dinner. Ah, I tell 
you the time will come when all these things will 
seem very insignificant, and by the time one has 
lost their experience once or twice, over such mat- 
tors, they learn that God is a jealousGod and must 
he first in everything and will be o/beyed. 

A sanctified soul is taken out further and further 
on the faith line. Their faith will be tested in many 
ways. The devil will point to the poor house, when 
the children are trusted to God's care; he will try 
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heaven will be tested; faith in God's keeping power 
will he tried. A sanctified soul must wateh and 
pray, lest lie fall into indifference, lest he lose sight 
of the value of souls, lest the devil pour vinegar into 
his honey. They must watch that he does not let 
sorrow take the place of joy, discouragement the 
place of peace, resentment the place of submission, 
and self-praise the place of humility. 

If we are prayerful, watchful, humble, submissive, 
trustful, faithful on our part, God will do the rest 
and bring us safely through. 



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MY BIBLE. 

Oh my Bible ! How I love tliee ! 

Sweet companion of my way, 
Thoug'h thronigh the shade and gloom it windeth, 

'Thou art still my staff and stay. 

How I love to read thy pages; 

Gaze with rapture on the trace, 
That so clearly there is portrayed, 

Of my dear Redeemer's face. 

On how often thou hast helped me 

Over pain and woe and strife, 
When I looked to thee for comfort. 

Read the words of endless life. 

There it tells me how He loves me, 

How He died to set me free. 
How He's gone away to glory 

To prepare a place for me. 

There it tells me how He suffered. 

How I must His footsteps tread, 
How He patiently, did hear it 

And 'became the world's true Bread. 

Then it te'lls me of that country, 
I am journeying to see ; 



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Wtiere my Savior dwells forever 
And a mansion has for me. 

Do you wonder that I love it? 

That I would not from it part? 
For it is the words of J esus, 

Written by Him on my heart. 

Deeemher 27, 1904. 



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